Word: di
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove their theory that tooth decay comes more from a soft diet than from starches or sugars (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951), Physician Hans H. Neumann and Dentist Nicholas A. Di Salvo of Columbia University betook themselves to Mexico, Guatemala and darkest Peru. They found whole tribes with virtually no cavities, though they lived on a poor diet heavy with carbohydrates. The researchers made their subjects chomp down on a dynamometer, found their bites much more powerful (166 to 184 Ibs.) than those of soft-dieted Americans (127 Ibs.). Their prescription: eat more hard food...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Carmen, with Stevens, Di Stefano, Amara, Merrill...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lucia di Lammermoor, with Pons, Valentino, Peerce...
...25th anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera debut of durable Soprano Lily Pens, 51, the Met staged a special gala to hail her, programmed a hit parade of Ponsongs from such favorite operas of Lily's as Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor. From high-domed Rudolph Bing, the Met's general manager, Lily got congratulations and a passel of sterling silver mementos. Almost as trim as she was when she first defied the stereotyped bovine heft of oldtime grand divas, tiny (5 ft. ½ in., 109 Ibs.) French-born Singer Pons graciously took her curtain calls, then used...
...Italy it is called Polvere di Stelle, and ranks with O Sole Mio as an alltime favorite. In Japan it is called Sutaadasuto, and is one number record stores are not afraid to overorder. In England, where professionals call it a "gone evergreen," no song has sold more copies. In the U.S. it is called Stardust, and is the nation's most durable hit-comfortable as an old shoe, and yet rare as a glass slipper...