Word: emilia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interior, gripped the white steering wheel and stepped on the gas. His jet-black car shot ahead along the die-straight highway at 80 m.p.h., leaving his escort of police motorcycles and official limousines far behind. Scelba was racing into the "triangle of death," a section of Emilia in northern Italy, the notorious Red stronghold where scores of men have been killed in violent flare-ups between Communists and antiCommunists. There were plenty of Reds who would have liked to kill Minister Scelba himself...
...Scelba reached Modena, he got out of his car to look carefully at a poster. Under the caption "Scelba is in Emilia. He mustn't get out!" a cartoon showed a mouse with Scelba's face caught in a trap. Grimly Scelba climbed back into his car and drove on-still further into the trap...
Scelba did not display his courage just for the fun of it. He had a political point to make, and in several speeches during his visit to Emilia he explained the point. Said he: "Communists speculate on the fears of others . . . The Italian Communists are only a minority [but] with threats and violence they intimidate large sections of the population . . . We must kill this inferiority complex which persists where Communists are concerned...
Back in 1910, when blonde, Pennsylvania-born Florence Wickham was singing Ortrud in Lohengrin and Emilia in Otello at the Met, she never thought of composing an opera herself. Twenty-five years later, long after she had married and retired, she wrote a musical adaptation of As You Like It. Sponsored by her friend, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was produced in tiny Carmel, N.Y., later put on in Germany...
...into show business, she was lifting listeners out of their seats with a pyrotechnical performance of the title role in Rudolf Friml's Rose Marie. Singing with "exquisite coloratura," she made some of Friml's most overworked ballads sound good. Wrote the San Francisco News's Emilia Hodel: "We would have considered it impossible for anyone ever again to make us enjoy Indian Love Call, but Patrice . . . made the song not only lovely but exciting...