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...victims when the buildings were totally destroyed. But on Saturday it was learned that the two bus-loads of children had left the scene safely. Many other people died. "We reached the Erika," said one fireman, "and there was nothing there. It was just gone." Explained Painter Giovanni Grandi, who had been in a nearby chalet: "I saw the Miramonti go down. It was like an enormous hand had just come to knock it down...
...their visual experiences, they are likely to jump to questionable conclusions. After watching three comet fragments pound, at around 130,000 m.p.h., into Jupiter's dense atmosphere, Steve Maran, an understandably elated NASA astronomer, called the sight "the greatest one-two-three punch of all time." Meanwhile, Filippo Grandi, director of emergency aid for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, surveyed the unimaginable conditions around Goma, % the sleepy Zairean border town that had suddenly filled with over a million terrified Rwandans. More than a million other refugees, also without food, running water, sanitation and medical facilities, were crowding into other...
...days later, plump, curly-haired Dorothy, 26-a soprano hardly anyone in London had ever heard of-found herself in the studio of His Majesty's Voice recording company. The famed star of the Milan Opera, Madame Margherita Grandi, was making a recording of the sleepwalking scene from Verdi's Macbeth. Suddenly, right at the end, Madame Grandi shut her mouth, and Dorothy took over. She sang three notes-F, A flat, and top D flat. For her pains, she got a slight bow from Madame Grandi and 5 guineas ($21.15). Then she went home...
From Milan, Madame Grandi assured her British public that she really could sing top D flat herself. "But sometimes," she confided, "I am under such emotion, that it is a help ... if someone can sing it for me." London music lovers did not much like this explanation. It soon developed that Madame Grandi had been under similar emotion at last year's Edinburgh Festival, and had used another ghost, standing in the wings, for the same three notes. How much of this kind of thing went on? Apparently Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the orchestra for the recording...
...will be easy to maintain order. King Vittorio Emanuele will then probably abdicate in favor of his son, who will restore Italy's pre-Fascist constitution. He will also invite the President of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations to act as the Premier. This is Dino Grandi, former Fascist Ambassador to London, who is rumored to have engineered Mussolini's downfall. "After [Archbishop] Spellman's visit to the Vatican," Salvemini notes darkly, "[Grandi] was made a 'cousin to the King...