Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, a young man of Cremona named Francesco Ghizzoni fell in love. The girl was a 16-year-old blonde with blue eyes, an infectious laugh, and a good figure. Francesco, who at 25 already owned a small café, a house and some land, made an instant decision: "This girl will be my wife...
...that she wanted a show-business career after all, quit school, allowed herself a two-year trial period in which to find success or failure. She won $3,000 on a TV talent show, was booked by Broadway Impresario Lou Walters into his brassy Latin Quarter. Diahann was an instant hit, shared top billing with the changeable Christine Jorgensen, who taught Diahann how to bow like a lady ("Darling, like so . . ."). At 19 she drew raves as Ottilie (alias Violet), the naive young girl in the Truman Capote-Harold Arlen musical House of Flowers. She also married the show...
Nehru's unexpected and untypical sternness won him instant approval from India's press and public. The Hindustan Times, recently his most bitter critic, declared it was "unreservedly in agreement" with Nehru's policy, and that the proposals offered to China were "sane and practical and give none of our rights away." There were still demands that Nehru fire Krishna Menon, India's lean and irascible Minister of Defense, whom many Congress Party leaders blame for Nehru's past disregard of Red China's encroachments. Loyal to his friends as always, Nehru answered sharply...
...hour and a half later, the two had bagged six ducks. Then Curtice sighted a low-flying flock, off to his left. He leveled on the lead duck and fired. At that instant. Anderson stood up, inexplicably lurched toward Curtice, and caught the full blast in his head.* "That's one of the things I can't understand," a haggard Harlow Curtice told a press conference the next day. "He may have stumbled. The ground was very uneven. I don't know why he didn't stay down...
...Virtue. Now married to Italian Director-Producer Mario Lanfranchi (who originally signed her for Butterfly), Diva Moffo lives in an apartment in Milan, collects jazz records as an antidote to a steady opera diet. With her husband as lyricist, she writes pop songs, one of which, Citta, became an instant hit when she sang it on Italian TV ("Always, my city Your aroma is like a garden without flowers Like a tear...