Word: helene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Isolde. Last week, looking for someone to fill one big gap, the Metropolitan served up a real Thanksgiving turkey. To share buxom Helen Traubel's Wagnerian roles (so that Traubel could concertize for half the season), the Met had imported a six-foot, 200-pound German soprano named Erna Schleuter. Opposite her, as Tristan in the season's first Tristan und Isolde, was German Tenor Max Lorenz, who had not been heard at the Met since...
...dome that Gandhi had!") The writers included Conrad, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, G. B. Shaw, D. H. Lawrence (whose thin, bearded face Davidson had made indomitable as a plow), Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, and 1947 Nobel Prizewinner André Gide, looking like a Roman Senator in marble. Helen Keller was portrayed with her thinking hands upraised. Charlie Chaplin's vain, subtle face bowed in a corner. Einstein's uncombed locks stood forever snarled in bronze. John D. Rockefeller Sr. pursed withered lips. Ernie Pyle grinned shyly from a pedestal. And there was also a bust...
Fortnight ago, when Rumania's Communist-eclipsed young (26) King Michael and his handsome mamma, Queen Helen, flew to London for Cousin Elizabeth's wedding, he was asked if he intended to return to Bucharest. Said he: "I have heard these reports...They are not true. I have my responsibility and I intend to meet it." He said he would fly back Nov. 23. Last week the deadline passed, and Michael stayed on in London...
Wagnerian Soprano Helen Troubel went into a Dallas hospital to lick a "stubborn low-grade" infection after an attack...
Married. Janet Helen Attlee, 24, daughter of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee; and Harold William Shipton, 26, an electronics engineer; in Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, England...