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The music world's most talented and tempestuous diva, Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, winged from Italy to touch native soil for the first time since she held eight outnumbered process servers to a draw in a Chicago Civic Opera House fracas (TIME, Nov. 21). Sued for $300...
This collection of oddballs is wryly amusing as well as highly implausible. There is no plot, and the characters impinge on each other as temperaments rather than as people. All the action is in flashback, and the key act is a long-ago kiss stolen by the playwright from the...
Quarrels being the order of the day at the Mai-Mai, it took only a few Kaffir-beers before the Negroes chose up sides and began brawling. Within minutes, the fracas got out of hand, and several hundred enraged natives began hurling iron beer mugs, while Negro municipal police looked...
"Damnedest Farce." Even in the Land of Long, accustomed to taking its politics raw, Earl's antics have turned faces red. Representative Peter Murtes of New Orleans described one legislative fracas as "the damnedest farce I have ever seen," suggested that if the members were to continue to ignore...
While the insurance industry argued, the Securities & Exchange Commission last week joined the fracas, seeking to compel the only company now selling the new annuities to the general public to register with the SEC. Three days later, top insurance men thronged a hearing room in the New Jersey state senate...