Word: carusos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veined with ominous cracks, the plaster is flaking, the gold leaf is peeling, the faded red carpeting is frayed and splotched. The creaking red velvet seats are worn slick and the stage floor is pitted and warped. Backstage, the dingy corridors are cluttered with props and tarpaulins. In Caruso's old dressing room, illuminated by a naked light bulb, cracks in the window have been plugged with paper and Scotch tape. When a bevy of ballerinas swept onstage recently, they stirred up billows of dust that all but choked off the lead baritone. Admits one Met official: "There...
...Americans. Yale-educated Congressman John Lindsay Republican candidate for mayor, made it sound as if Columbia had been his alma mater all along. "Saying that Columbus did not discover America," declared Lindsay, "is as silly as saying DiMaggio doesn't know anything about baseball or that Toscanini and Caruso were not great musicians." Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose son, Steven, has a Norwegian wife, at first voyaged rather bravely into the controversy: "As far as the impact of Columbus' voyage is concerned, he discovered America." Later he carefully added that he did not mean to take anything away from...
...Nationals, long dominated by farm-boys from Iowa and cowboys from Oklahoma, this year was a resurgence of Eastern wrestlers. Mike Caruso of Lehigh at 123, Hill Stewart of Lehigh at 137, Bob of Maryland 157, and heavyweight Jim Nancy of Syracuse all won individual titles. , Iowa State nosed out Oklahoma State 87-86 for the team title largely on the impetus of six consolation victories Lehigh was third...
Harvard fared no better in the other second-round matches. Brooks was eliminated by Jerry Everling of Syracuse 10-8, Henjyoji lost 5-0 to the second seed at 123, Mike Caruso of Lehigh, and Durfee was pinned by second-seeded Wayne Hicks of Navy...
...return next year, about the only thing left will be surgery to bypass the blocked artery with a piece of his own vein or a Dacron tube. But by week's end Dr. Cooley was a relieved optimist: "Now I know how the surgeon felt who operated on Caruso's vocal cords...