Word: cols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week, at 74, Conductor Serafin was back in the U.S., ready to admit that his pessimism may have been premature. After half a century of conducting in such world-famed opera houses as Milan's La Scala, Rome's Royal Opera and Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón, Maestro Serafin had signed up to lead the Italian wing at Manhattan's lively young City Opera...
...Chicago, Col. Robert McCormick announced that he had received a gift from the Mayor of Cartagena: a stone from the 17th century walls of the Caribbean seaport. The new acquisition brings to 124 the stones he has collected from 48 states, 16 battlefields and 60 other places of "historical significance" and which are now mortared in the fastness of the south wall of the Tribune Tower...
Evidence & Audience. The fight put up in the committee by Eastvold and his col leagues was a warning to the Taftmen of what was to come on the convention floor. On the next case - Louisiana's 13 dele gates- the Eisenhower group put up an other strong argument. Backed up by an impressive array of charts and witnesses, John Minor Wisdom, chief of the pro-Eisenhower delegation from Louisiana, asserted that John Jackson, head of the Taft delegation, had set up rump meetings and then rigged the state credentials committee so that it was worse than a kangaroo court...
...request of the Foreign Office, the French ambassador canceled the gay show scheduled for Bastille Day this week at the Colón Opera House; four other diplomatic parties were called off. Juan Perón spent most of his time at Eva's bedside in the secluded presidential residence in suburban Olivos...
...case of Caravaggio's missing Musicians. Seventeenth-century contemporaries glowingly described the masterpiece. But though modern experts looked high & low, they could find no record of the painting-much less the painting itself. Once in the early 1920s, an Italian thought he spotted it in the col lection of Florence's Uffizi Palace; it turned out to be the work of an admirer. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art proudly announced that Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Musicians had turned up and been identified beyond a doubt. Furthermore, the museum had bought...