Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy since Tebaldi. Large-volumed and agile of voice, she scored her first major success in Bellini's Norma at Verona four years ago, has since become a widely acclaimed guest singer of the standard Verdian repertory. Her voice has appealed to most critics as a cross between Tebaldi's "silky elasticity" and Callas' bite and thrust. Big-boned and fleshy-faced, she has been most often criticized for carrying too much weight to put across the dramatic illusion her roles call for. "When they pay me a million lire an evening," says she, "I shall reduce...
...first big cross section of second-quarter earnings reports confirmed the good news already indicated by scattered early returns. Though some companies and industries were caught in inflation's cost squeeze, sales were better than last year for most, and profits were climbing to new records...
...first accurate description of the etiological agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1919 and described its clinical symptoms and pathology. He received the Order of the Commander. Polonia Restituta, from Poland for his studies on typhus as a member of the Commission to Poland from the Red Cross...
...atmosphere. Container Corp. of America Chairman Walter Paepcke, 61, in 1950 set up the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a nonprofit foundation that runs living quarters, executive seminars, a new health center, and a spate of lectures, forums and other cultural activities. "The Aspen idea," says Paepcke, "is the cross-fertilization of men's minds...
Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME, April...