Word: enrico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Alessandro Bonci, 70, onetime tenor for the Metropolitan, Manhattan and Chicago Opera Companies, temperamental rival of the great Enrico Caruso; in Rome. Famed for his roles of Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville, diminutive Bonci was long on technique, short on volume, made up in lyrical effect what he lacked in lung power...
Married. Maria-Christina-Teresa-Alexandra-Guadelupe-Maria de la ConcepciÓn Ildefonsa y Victoria-Eugenia, 28, Infanta of Spain, youngest daughter of ex-King Alfonso; and Count Enrico Marone, wealthy (Cinzano vermouth) Italian: in Rome...
Where? was the question of the hour (see p. 29). Great Britain and France took precautions all around the Mediterranean. In Malta, Enrico Mizzi, Nationalist leader of the Council of Government, and a Catholic Actionist named Herbert Ganado were interned. In Cairo and Alexandria 700 fifth-columnist suspects were clapped into internment camps. An evacuation caravan took civilians away from Menton on the French-Italian frontier, prepared to evacuate Monte Carlo next...
Further cultural activities of Cossel include obtaining German decorations for War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra and Army Chief of Staff General Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro. Visiting Berlin last year, General Goes Monteiro toasted "the beautiful principles" of Naziism...
...Italy's highest-ranking officers, Marshal Enrico Caviglia, chose this critical moment to give Il Duce and his undernourished country some sound advice. In a sensational preface to a book, Totalitarian Warfare and Its Conduct, he declared: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary. In his calculations the military forces will not have the primary place, but rather the economic and financial forces." If Italian cinemagoers, stockbrokers and generals were uncomfortable about...