Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought her to the U.S. three months later. She knew neither Italian nor English. After ten harried weeks with an Italian tutor, she made her Met debut in Il Trovatore. Now she is the Met's first choice in such Italian operas as Aida, La Gioconda, La Forza del Destino and Norma. Of Norma, Mme. Milanov says proudly: "To sing it a woman must have had very big experience in life...
...brightest star of Victor's sky is the Met's Jugoslav-born soprano Zinka Mi-lanov. Her Pace, pace, mio Dio from La Forza del Destine and Voi lo sapete from Cavalleria Rusticana, helped by modern engineering, are improvements over most of the collectors' classics from the Golden Age. She also teams with the Met's Margaret Harshaw in a duet from Norma, and with Jan Peerce in the Miserere from // Trovatore. Others: Kerstin Thorborg, Blanche Thebom, Eleanor Steber, Alexander Kipnis...
...three old people who lived in the old mansion at Republica del Salvador, No. 66, never admitted visitors, had no servants. Brother Angel Villar Lledias, stooped and 70, did the marketing. Sister Maria, somber and 58, cooked. Brother Miguel, 66, was blind. Sometimes the three trailed over to shabby El Principal for lunch, left...
Divorced. By General Fulgencio Batista, 44, ex-President of Cuba: Elisa del Pilar Godinez y Gomez de Batista, 40; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Mexico City. He charged that she "materially abandoned" him (by staying in Cuba while he wandered around North and South America...
Possessed of a budding paunch and a brand new engineering diploma, young Braden set to work in his father's Chilean copper mine. He was 21 when he saw 19-year-old Maria Humeres del Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment...