Word: daughter-in-law
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...Sesto Bruscantini, bass; Renato Ca-pecchi, baritone; Amedeo Berdini, tenor; Clara Petrella, soprano; Aldo Bertocci, tenor; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 4 sides LP). A powerful and passionate performance of Montemezzi's opera about a blind king who throttles his adulterous daughter-in-law. Chiefly remarkable for the beautiful bass singing of the king (Bruscantini). Recording: good...
...officer asked the Hon. Mrs. Graham Lampson, just back from France, in London's drafty Victoria Station one day last week. "Half a hundredweight [56 Ibs.] of coal," she replied. And there it was, in her immaculate suitcase, each lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Mrs. Lampson, daughter-in-law of Baron Killearn, first British Ambassador to Egypt, explained that French friends, concerned over Britain's critical fuel shortage, had given it to her so she could keep warm...
...Checkers. The reason Ralph Kempner never married was quite simple. He fell in love with Mrs. Johnston's daughter-in-law Elissa, whose husband was often out of town. Primarily, Into Thin Air is a story of adultery, handled with a delicacy and understanding that few U.S. writers have brought to the subject. Author Beck manages with exquisite taste to give dignity and beauty to the love of Ralph and Elissa even as it swamps both of them in guilt. Neither has the strength to admit the guilt and ask Harold Johnston to agree to a divorce. When Johnston...
Bayreuth's case: some of Wagner's Third Reich worshipers (most notable: Adolf Hitler) "made him a Nazi-he was not." The prewar boss of the festival, Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred, mother of Wieland and Wolfgang, once an ardent Nazi, has retired from all connection with festival affairs in illustration of the point. Moreover, the new Bayreuth is stressing the fact that Wagner admired the U.S. He wrote a grand march for Philadelphia's celebration of the looth anniversary of independence (he was paid $5,000 for it*), planned to visit the U.S. before...
Patched up with 20 plastic-surgery operations after a plane crash last year, Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of France's President, announced in Buffalo that she had learned to fly a helicopter-"a more rational plane," said she, "for a woman pilot...