Word: giulio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To the Marchese Giulio Pacelli and Signora Piera Bombrini Pacelli: a son, Eugenio; somewhere in Italy. His namesake and granduncle: Pope Pius...
...brakeman on a railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...
...lush days of Caruso, World War I and the booming 20s, paunchy Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza built up a $1,100,000 surplus, but depression tore it down again. By 1933 the Metropolitan had to pass the hat for $300,000. Since then, the Metropolitan has been regularly running...
Teaching Teacher. Japanese military aviation had been built on a dream. The Italian Giulio Douhet had dreamed of great fleets of heavy bombers roaring over the enemy and, presto, wiping him out. And so the Japanese built heavy bombers, fleets of them. But these fleets merely nibbled at the edges of Chinese vastnesses of terrain and courage...
Married. Mme. Frances Alda Gatti-Casazza, 55, oldtime opera singer, former wife of the Metropolitan Opera's late manager, Giulio Gatti-Casazza; and Ray Vir Den, 45, Manhattan advertising executive, and something of a singer himself; in Charleston, S.C. Chuckled the bridegroom, vice president of the famed Dutch Treat Club: "I hope I surprised the boys...