Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, pretty Contralto Kathleen Ferrier had made a name for herself at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival -and the name was Orfeo. Last week, after her first U.S. performance of Gluck's 187-year-old, seldom heard opera Orfeo ed Euridice, Manhattan operagoers understood...
Vera's singing when she began broadcasting with Ambrose and His Orchestra in 1937. But she really won her queen's crown during the war with a program for the troops called Sincerely Yours. So many of them heard her telling Private Bill Jones his wife was well, then following up with Bill's favorite song, that standard questions of returning British troops were 1) "What's left of London?" and 2) "Is Vera still alive...
...music with the overture, and stayed in it to the last gaily triumphant note. It was, however, the dramatically restrained passion of Kathleen Ferrier's singing, in a voice that is even and full through its two-octave range, that carried the show. Few had ever heard the familiar aria I Have Lost My Euridice so sumptuously sung...
After the first shock wore off, screams were heard from as far away as London. Who did Louis think he was, anyway, dictating his own successor? The loudest screams came from Promoter Mike Jacobs, semi-retired boss of Manhattan's 20th Century Sporting Club: "I never thought he would do this to me . . . I'm getting back in harness in two weeks. We ain't conceding nothing." It was clear to him that Promoter Joe had declared war on Promoter Mike, the man who masterminded all of Louis' championship fights...
...jobs at $6 a week to boss dyer at $60 a week. If he had never made a lot of money, he had always managed to save some of what he made. He bought a home and lived comfortably-by himself, after his wife died. Some of his friends heard that he also dabbled in the stock market, but taciturn old Albion never talked about it. Last July, at 72, he died...