Word: ferrara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, there was little doctors could do to restore useful movement of frozen joints and wasted muscles after the disease had done its gnarling and crippling work. Lately there have been major advances, largely through new and daring surgical techniques. Typical is the case of Angelina Ferrara, who was severely crippled by Still's disease at the age. of nine. Her knees were bent and could not be straightened; her elbows were straight and could not be bent; her hips were bent and frozen. Last year, aged 25, Angelina was taken to the arthritis clinic at Manhattan...
...your Sept. 17 article on Estes Kefauver, the statement is made that Phredonia Estes was descended from the d'Este family, rulers of Ferrara. According to most known accounts, the family died out in the 18th century. Furthermore, I cannot conceive of any descendant of such a royal house allowing his name to degenerate to Estes...
Miss Giovanna Ferrara, 23, an Italian chemistry student who used a knowledge of American history to win a total of $24,000 on Italian and American quiz programs, will visit the University at 2:30 p.m. today as part of a government-sponsored tour of Greater Boston...
...performance was an important step toward the recovery of an ailing man whom Arturo Toscanini once called "the greatest musical find of this century." Sicilian-born Conductor Ferrara, 45, guest-conducted the major orchestras of Italy in the '30s and early '40s, became his country's most famed conductor after Toscanini himself. But one day in 1940, while conducting Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, Ferrara suddenly stiffened and crashed backwards off the podium in a dead faint. In the next several years he fainted so regularly on the podium that he became known throughout Italy...
Sorrowfully, Ferrara gave up conducting, retired to a hermit-like existence. When San Francisco-born Pianist Franceschi, an old friend, arrived in Rome this spring on a recital tour, she took to visiting Ferrara to play him his favorite sonatas. Slowly she reawakened his interest, at last persuaded him to conduct an orchestra with herself as soloist for a series of recordings. Under Soloist Franceschi's watchful eye, the recordings were completed. It seemed this week that Conductor Ferrara may at last be licking his old weakness. Vera Franceschi is sure of it. She plans to bring...