Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composers, in five different languages, she displayed a solidly centered, richly colored voice of moderate power, smooth as cream in the lower register, clear and unforced in the upper one. She was able to pay out a prodigious breath supply with fluid ease, showed an impressive command of Italian, French and German diction, although her English came through with a yawing, Akim Tamiroff drawl. Zara's only lacks: conviction and stage presence...
...Pope Sent You." During the past fortnight, his audiences have included Tibetan Lama Cohimed Rigdzin, two football teams, the children of Vatican City employees, the Italian National Blood Donors Association, Pennsylvania's "flying grandfather," Max Conrad, Mount Everest's Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Fiat Auto Co. President Vittorio Valletta, the U.S. 686th Air Force band and choir (which serenaded him), the officers and men of his own Swiss Guard, and 30 of the carabinieri and motorcycle police who escort his car around Rome...
Fortnight ago, pale, thin Audrey Hepburn came back shakily before the cameras after a month in bed following her fall from a white Arabian stallion named Gui Pago (TIME. Feb. 9). Aiding her convalescence were her French secretary, Italian hairdresser and Husband Mel Ferrer. At company expense she installed her retinue in a florid villa, refurbished to match the Ferrers' Beverly Hills mansion. But trouble was far from over. Returning from a trip to Nicaragua, three of the film's technicians were killed when their plane crashed near Managua. This tragedy was followed by a farce, when Director...
...years while working nights at a Bulova Watch plant making analogue digital computers. With some misgivings, he finally gave up his $200-a-week job with Bulova to become a regular member of the New York City Opera. MacNeil now specializes in Verdian roles, plans at last to learn Italian. "Once," he recalls ruefully, "I was singing Traviata and flung my hand out because the music felt like it. Then I was afraid to pull it back because I didn't know what my lines meant, so I just stood there with my hand stuck...
Family Man. Perry, 47, has never wavered from the family feeling that he got back in Canonsburg, Pa., where he was born "lucky," the seventh son of a seventh son. His father was an Italian immigrant mill hand with 13 kids. Perry began early as a barber, at 14 had his own shop, and never intended to leave Canonsburg. Even after crooning for Ted Weems during the 1930s, Perry went home in 1942 intending to open another shop. But booking agents never stopped phoning, and soon he was at Manhattan's Copacabana...