Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret, by Alba de Cespedes. A sensitive glimpse into the soul of a middle-aged Italian woman, whose problems and dreams do not appear so very different from those of her American sisters...
Mario Del Monaco, 39, tenor, singing opposite Tebaldi in this week's opening Tosca. Endowed with the most glorious top register in all opera, Del Monaco came to the Met in 1952 after serving in the Italian army and making his big-time debut at Covent Garden. Short, stocky and a shouter, Del Monaco commands ringing B-flats that have made a name for him in all the roles-Pagliacci's Canio, Samson, Aïda's Radames-in which vocal volume, height and brilliance are needed simultaneously. His interpretation of Otello, by critical consensus...
...papal agony; $3,200 for photographs of the death throes; $1,600 for a story on the embalming process. (Il Giorno Editorialist Gaetano Baldacci charged that Galeazzi-Lisi, employing an "aromatic spirits" technique which he claimed had been used on the body of Christ, wretchedly botched the job.) Two Italian dailies, Rome's Il Tempo and Turin's La Stampa, bought Galeazzi-Lisi's second entree for a joint bid of $3,200. Conservative, pro-Catholic Il Tempo printed it, after deleting "certain passages which appeared to us too crude...
...editors packed her, Reporter Benson, a photographer and a staff sob sister onto the next plane to Naples, to confront the unsuspecting Shiv. Twenty-three thousand feet over Anzio, Italy, minutes short of Naples, the Viscount bearing Jane and company and 22 other passengers was rammed by an Italian air force jet. Dead with all the rest: the Sketch four, in pursuit of an essentially phony story...
WEST GERMAN JET FIGHTER will be Lockheed F-104, ending two-year competition by U.S., French, British, Italian, Swedish planemakers to get Luftwaffe contract. German Defense Ministry will ask Bundestag clearance to buy six to ten planes in U.S. for up to $8,000,000, produce 300 more under license...