Word: cianfarra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mustache. Morgan made his most memorable 1956 newscasts on a story of painful intimacy to him, the sinking of the Andrea Doria. Aboard and reported killed in the crash with the Stockholm was his 14-year-old daughter Linda, who had been traveling with Morgan's exwife, Jane Cianfarra, and her husband. New York Times Correspondent Camille Cianfarra. Morgan rushed to a rescue ship on a Coast Guard cutter, then back to Manhattan for his evening newscast. Scriptless, he ad-libbed an eloquent report of the tragedy from the viewpoint of an anonymous "person who had relatives aboard." Next...
...through the night and on into the morning the Times waited for what it hoped would be an eyewitness report from Times Madrid Correspondent Camille Ci-anfarra, traveling aboard the Andrea Doria. "We ought to get some good cover age from Cianfarra," said Catledge. But the story never came. Sleeping in his cabin, Timesman Cianfarra, a veteran of more than 25 years, was killed instantly by the Stockholm's ice-crusher bow, along with his daughter...
Died. Camilla Maximilian Cianfarra. 49, topflight New York Times correspondent (Rome, 1935-41 and 1946-51; Mexico City, 1942-46; Madrid since 1951). who in 1949 scored a world newsbeat on the Vatican archaeologists' claim to have found St. Peter's tomb beneath the cathedral's high altar in Rome; in the collision-sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, off Nantucket (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...