Word: di
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carried his own omens. He doffed his hat in the rain as he shook hands with Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Premier Antonio Segni, doffed it again as a band played short versions of the U.S.'s Star-Spangled Banner and Italy's Inno di Mameli...
...Bounds. In Newark, Anne Olivia Di Brizzi, 60, and her son Alexander, 32, were arrested for possession of 144,000 stolen golf balls...
...unquestionably old (16th or 17th century) and in very bad condition. He also said they had no special merit. "Stones in the street," Curtis explained last week, "may be millions of years old, but you can't sell them as art." Undaunted, the Folio family consulted one Charles di Renzo, owner of an electrical-supply store in nearby Rosemead, who made a deal to act as the Folios' "agent." Di Renzo and his brother Jay called in Amadore Porcella, an enthusiastic authenticator described as a Vatican art expert. Porcella ticked seven of them off as a Caravaggio...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Clemenza di Tito Overture; Schubert, Variations in A flat; Couperin, Lecons di tenebres; Milhaud, Chansons de Ronsard; Handel, Organ Concerto no. 3, opus 4; Brahms, Trio, opus post.; Debussy, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; Telemann, Trio sonata in E; R. Strauss, Serenade in E flat for 13 winds; Haydn, Sonata no. 3 for piano...
...weddings and funerals, without ever taking a lesson. When she left school, she turned down a Hollywood offer because she wanted to, become a nun. Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing Butterfly's Un bel di, the only operatic aria she knew. When she auditioned before Conductor Eugene Ormandy. he marveled: "It is impossible for anyone that beautiful to know how to sing...