Word: casa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotels, office buildings and apartments went up last year, the skyline changes almost daily. Four decades ago, Casablanca was a squalid Oriental port of 20,000 people. Today the population is 600,000. Last year ships spent a total of 4,000 days waiting for berths at Casa's crowded docks...
...abstractionists withdrew their pictures from the jammed display window of a 5 & 10? store, explaining they had no wish to compete with pots & pans. But Giuseppe Gheduzzi, a traditional artist, did very well against similar odds; his pictures, surrounded by pink girdles and brassieres in the window of the Casa del Busto (House of the Bust), sold best...
Facing Milan's quiet Piazza Buonarroti and its huge, brooding statue of Verdi, the three-story, red brick Casa now accommodates 50 men and 35 women in elegant austerity. There are still a few who remember the old maestro. Said Soprano Giannina Russ, 77, once a star at La Scala: "He was always critical. Just like Toscanini, he was never satisfied...
...50th anniversary of his death, Benefactor Verdi's guests will pay their special respects to his memory. Wearing the simple costume Verdi prescribed for them-the men, black suits, string ties and soft wide-brimmed hats, the women, plain, dark grey dresses-they will gather in the Casa's open courtyard, lay flowers on the tomb where Verdi and his wife Giuseppina lie buried. At night, those still able to go to La Scala may sit in the royal box for a performance of Verdi's Requiem...
Gifts are coming Casa Verdi's way. Arturo Toscanini, 83, who knew Verdi and worships him, has been helping to pay some of the bills. Last week he sent another check, for $8,000. And that was just the beginning. Disabled with an ailing knee since last fall, Toscanini had recovered enough last week to get down to serious rehearsal, with soloists, chorus and the NBC Symphony, for his first conducting in six months: an anniversary performance of the Requiem. Carnegie Hall (at a top of $25 a seat) was already almost sold out. That would...