Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation with the Italian people-many of whom, at the beginning, were frankly skeptical about having a woman as U.S. ambassador. She learned to speak proficient Italian, was interviewed, photographed, talked about wherever she traveled. Her popularity rose to a peak when, ten days after a disastrous crash of an Italian airline plane (Linee Aeree Italiane) in New York, she calmly boarded an LAI plane for a flight home. An Italian public-opinion poll once reported that half of the Italian people knew Clare Luce (normal ambassadorial batting average...
Died. Guido Cantelli, 36, gaunt, brilliant Italian conductor, en route to New York for an American concert series and a dinner engagement with his friend and mentor, 89-year-old Arturo Toscanini; in the crash of an Italian airliner shortly after its take-off from Paris. At 25, Cantelli was the youngest conductor ever to lead Milan's famed La Scala orchestra, of which he was appointed permanent conductor a fortnight ago. Toscanini's fond verdict: "He conducts like...
...Rockies. When President Eisen hower suffered his heart attack, KLZ supplied the early coverage for the entire CBS network. And KLZ's mobile unit got to the wreckage of the time-bombed airliner, 32 miles from Denver, before many of the investigators, had pictures of the crash on the air within a few hours. Terry took a recorder on his Mediterranean vacation early this year, brought back four taped Sunday shows of recorded interviews called "KLZ Visits the Middle East." From these interviews came warnings that war would come to the Middle East within the year...
...played opposite Helen Hayes in Penrod (1918). turned to Hollywood in 1926, was convicted of manslaughter (1927) after Actor Ray Raymond died when Kelly slugged him during a quarrel over Raymond's wife, Actress Dorothy Mackaye. Kelly married Actress Mackaye in 1931 (she died after a car crash in 1940) after serving 25 months in San Quentin, later returned to Broadway, won the Donaldson and Perry awards for Command Decision (1947-48), starred in The Country Girl (1950-51); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...scuttled by the Egyptians, clog the waterway. The El Firdan railway bridge also has collapsed into the canal. Most optimistic estimate for clearing the canal: more than a month. Says one shipping expert: "It all depends on who is going to do the unplugging. If it's a crash program under the Americans, it might take six weeks. If it's the British and French, it might take three months. If it's the Egyptians, the job may never be done...