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...Cincinnati, several days after the election, Senator Taft tried on a new, grey-blue fedora-a present from his office staff to replace the old, grey good-luck hat which he had worn in his Ohio campaign. The new fedora was symbolic; politically speaking, Robert Alphonso Taft also wore a new hat. When the 82nd Congress convenes, no man in the U.S., including Truman, will exercise more influence on legislation...
...Philip II), Argentine Soprano Delia Rigal, new Italian Mezzo Fedora Barbieri, and the Americans Jerome Hines (the Grand Inquisitor) and Robert Merrill-through stage movements blocked out long before. She had cut down most of the operatic arm-flailing ("the less acting you do the better"), tried to keep them from staring dead ahead at Conductor Stiedry for the beat. Exhausted Margaret Webster hoped she had succeeded in her effort to "prevent the eye from too grossly contradicting...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Don Carlo, with Fedora Barbieri, Jussi Bjoerling and Robert Merrill...
...Orchestra, had conducted Milan's La Scala orchestra during the Mussolini regime. A German war bride of Philadelphia, returning from a visit to her mother in Germany, was detained because she had belonged to a Hitler youth organization in her teens. The Metropolitan Opera's mezzo-soprano, Fedora Barbieri, was held (she went to a Fascist school...
...Hatless Corpse. That evening, sharp as ever in a dark suit, pearl-grey fedora and canary-yellow gloves, Drury drove his new black Cadillac home. At 6:45 he backed into the garage. Two men stepped out of the darkness and faced the car. With a shotgun and a .45, they punched four holes in the windshield. The first slugs knocked Drury's hat to the seat; the rest plowed into his head and body. An hour later Bill Drury was dead-without a hat on. Upstairs on his desk was a telephone message: the Kefauver committee had called...