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...took a jury only two hours last week to convict Ku Klux Klanner Ce cil Sessum in the fire-bombing death two years ago of Storekeeper Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, the first time an all-white state jury had convicted a Mississippi white man in the death of a Negro civil rights worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: Closer to Home | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Economists are divided as to whether housing as a whole is about to rebound. Chairman Gardner Ackley of the Coun cil of Economic Advisors forecasts that it will recover this year to something close to the 1964 level of 1,584,000 units. many other experts lean toward the view of James C. Downs Jr., chair man of Chicago's Real Estate Research Corp.: "The market is still oversupplied, and I foresee no dramatic improve ment." One encouraging sign: April con tracts for residential construction, a ba rometer of work to come hit a record $2.1 billin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing: Rolling Readjustment | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...months and dyed her hair red. When she returned to the Metropolitan Opera last week after an absence of a year, she decided that having refurbished her form, she would also refurbish an old -to Met audiences-unfamiliar role. She insisted on singing the title part in Francesco Cilèa's Adriana Lecouvreur, an opera that had been performed at the Met just twice, a half-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: New Shape, New Song | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

Tough Trick. Adriana may be a stranger to U.S. and English audiences, but the opera is a repertory staple in Italy. Composer Cilèa (pronounced che-lay-ah) wrote it when he was 35, and it established his reputation. He coasted on it from its premiere in 1902 until his death in 1950. It is a respectable enough opera, reminiscent of Puccini in its throbbing arias and duets and in its yearning strings. It even has a predictably pathetic ending, in which the heroine is punished for the crime of having fallen in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: New Shape, New Song | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur (Giacinto Prandelli, tenor; Carla Gavazzi, soprano; Saturno Meletti, baritone; Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Alfredo Simonetto conducting; 6 sides LP). A melodramatic love story by Francesco Cilèa (1866-1950) studded with romantic melodies and forceful scoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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