Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as a boy in Mexico, José had been an unworldly sort. But his golden voice and romantic profile soon had him performing at the Chicago Civic Opera, most notably as Nicias in Thais. He went into the movies, made a succession of highly successful musical films in Hollywood, Mexico City and Buenos Aires...
...prove that its shocking picture of the electrocution of Gunman James Morelli three weeks ago was no fake, the Chicago Herald-American last week uncorked a full page of photos explaining how the trick was done. As pressroom gossips had suspected, Herald-American Photographer Joe Migon had pulled back the lining of his shoe, chiseled a hole in the heel big enough to hold a tiny (3 by 1 by ¾ in.) Minox camera, then concealed it with the lining. Migon had thus carried the camera undetected past the X-ray eyes of the Cook County jail "inspecto-scope," which...
...name of Munch was not big in U.S. music. He had visited for the first time in the 1946-47 season, to be guest conductor in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles; in 1948 he had conducted the French National (Radio) Orchestra on its U.S. tour. Although he had won respectful notices from critics, his name had seldom appeared in the calculations of the pundits and prophets who wanted to call the tune on Boston's new conductor. From the time 75-year-old Conductor Serge Koussevitzky announced that he would abdicate...
...Chicago 5, New York...
Endicott Peabody '42, Massachusetts State Chairman of the American Veterans Committee, will speak tonight at the chapter meeting at Phillips Brooks House. Peabody, All-American guard of the 1941 football team, will report on the fourth annual national convention of the AVC at Chicago...