Word: carvalho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMONG the incidental expenses of our Rome bureau this month were such exotic items as "orchids for Maria," "champagne and caviar for Maria" and "food for Maria's poodle." The object of this tender solicitude was Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas. Her benefactor: Correspondent George de Carvalho of the Rome bureau, who did the bulk of the reporting on this week's cover story, starting with the arrangements for the cover portrait by Artist Henry Koerner...
Actually Miss Callas gave far more than she received, though it took some striving. Her first dinner meeting with De Carvalho in Milan went smoothly enough. "Ask me anything," she said. Long after midnight the questions were still coming, the soprano was still going, and her husband was muttering to George: "Never heard her talk like this to anyone before." But after another searching session at lunch the following day, Miss Callas cried enough...
...works by Barraud, Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky on Friday and by Moevs, Mozart, and Prokofieff Saturday evening. The Sunday concert will feature Copland's Symphonic Ode, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Zino Francescatti as soloist, and Schumann's Symphony No. 2, in C major. Conductors will be Eleazor de Carvalho Friday, Leonard Bernstein Saturday, and Charles Munch Sunday...
Since then our Paris bureau has kept close tabs on Poujade, and so has the French press. Ex-Bookseller Poujade fumed whenever TIME referred to his following of small shopkeepers and craftsmen as tax dodgers. But he was still eager when Correspondent George de Carvalho, who was his shadow all through the December election campaign, told him that TIME planned a cover story about him. "Well, let's get it over with," said Poujade. "What do you want to know?" Replied De Carvalho: "Everything." Poujade chuckled and nodded: "Go ahead...
...chuckle soon turned to a growl. Poujade complained: "Usually reporters are happy to get a 20-minute interview. You've been haunting me night and day, and you're still not satisfied." Before long he was unwilling to talk at all to TIME. When Correspondent De Carvalho protested, a Poujadist cracked: "Maybe you have millions of American readers, but they don't vote in France." Said De Carvalho: "No, but French voters read...