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...Born. To Tito Schipa (pronounced Skeepa), 57, Italian-born ex-Metropolitan Opera tenor, and Teresa Borgna Schipa, 22, his second wife: his third child, her first, a son; in Lisbon. Name: Tito Luis Joao Michelangelo. Weight...
Allison's coworker, Italian-born, Nobel-Prizeman Enrico Fermi, was in the same fix. Of him a colleague said: "He's a tougher character and good at saying no. He refused to do administrative work. He doesn't have a phone and refused to have a secretary. General Groves hates my guts. But he hates Fermi's guts worse...
...Manhattan's Italian-born Vittorio Sacconi regularly overhauls Joseph Szigeti's Guarneri and Yehudi Menuhin's Strad; Jascha Heifetz takes his violins to Mischa Yurkevitch when in New York, to A. Koodlach in Los Angeles...
...Lombardo had made himself America's No. 1 longtime dance-band leader by merchandising a product as dependable and uninspired as a metronome. Lombardo still has eight of the nine men he started with in London, Ont. in 1923. Three of the band are his brothers. Papa Lombardo, Italian-born, was a tailor who bought musical instruments for his kids. Guy, now 43, and sleekly handsome, started on the violin, now just stands in front of the band. Brother Carmen, 42, plays sax, and Brother Lebert, 41, the trumpet. Their first dates were at Lake Erie summer resorts. Later...
Thirty years ago Italian-born Gabriella Besanzoni was one of the world's topflight Carmens (La Scala). Then she married Brazil's millionaire banker and industrialist. Henrique Lage. In Rio, Madame Lage held sway at smart soirees, horsed her way into Brazilian society's front ranks...