Word: cecilia
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...other two women with professorial status are Cora A. Du Bois, professor of Anthropology, and Cecilia H. Payne-Gaposchin, professor of Astronomy...
Shrieking Leap. The woman Milan critics now call Goddess Callas was born Maria Anna Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulos at dawn on Dec. 3, 1923 in Manhattan's Flower Hospital, four months after her parents arrived from Athens. In Greece her father had been a successful pharmacist. But in the U.S. he drifted from job to job. The family moved from one cheap apartment to another, the parents always squabbling, often on the verge of breaking up. Maria remembers her childhood with bitterness: "My sister was slim and beautiful and friendly, and my mother always preferred her. I was the ugly...
...supply editors and Cartographer Chapin with historical dates and data, Researcher Cecilia Dempster, a University of Edinburgh-trained geographer who worked for the American Geographical Society before she joined TIME in 1953, crammed for three months. "My biggest problems," she said, "were to reconcile the different viewpoints of historians and to locate ancient boundaries. The Romans, bless them, very carefully recorded theirs; the Moslems didn't bother...
...piano concerto's slow movement when he paled and swayed on the podium. Soloist Vera Franceschi swiftly signaled the sound engineers to stop the recording. Then she helped Conductor Franco Ferrara to a chair, plied him with black coffee. Ten minutes later he rapped the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome to silence, led them the rest of the way through a singing recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Canti della Stagione Alta...
Other noteworthy records: Nine Beethoven Symphonies, played by the NBC Symphony under Toscanini and popularly priced (Victor, 6 LPs); Puccini's Turandot, with Inge Borkh and Mario del Monaco and St. Cecilia Academy musicians under Alberto Erede (London, 3 LPs); Ravel's Complete Piano Works, played by Walter Gieseking (Angel...