Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were wonderful,'' said Maria Callas, "but you owe something to me, you know. After all, I persuaded you to sing roles like Lucia." She was speaking to a big, square-jawed Australian woman named Joan Sutherland, a former secretary who has won a sudden but solid reputation in the Bellini-Donizetti territory that Callas calls her own. Last week Soprano Sutherland, 33, was appearing at Britain's stylish Glyndebourne Festival in Bellini's I Puritani. On the lawn at intermission, as they were consuming their hamper-packed chicken-in-aspic suppers, members of the black-tied...
...show-offs to aspire to. A self-made millionaire, he liked to throw frequent parties for 200 to 300 guests in his $600,000, six-level surrealistic home carved out of a mountainside in Beverly Hills. Trim and handsomely greying at 48, Bachelor Hayes figured in gossip items with Joan Blondell and Barbara Hutton. and made the headlines for lasting two long months as the fiance-of-the-moment of Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. Hal Hayes also had another, essential side-the money-making side. He is the founder and sole proprietor of what he claims is the world...
Tarts & Trollops. Women are traditionally the warrior's relaxation. Aly Khan had a fastidious dislike of tarts and trollops, which made things difficult for the married men of his acquaintance. His wedding to his first wife, Joan Guinness, came after a divorce action by her Member of Parliament husband, who named Aly as corespondent. His second marriage, to Rita Hayworth, involved a round-the-world courtship that was faithfully recorded in newspaper headlines. With his famed charm, his solicitous attentions, and cascades of flowers, telegrams, parties and tete-a-tetes, he laid siege to a notable clutch of beauties...
When Benny's daughter Joan played a squeaky violin, Jack grabbed the fiddle, bashed her over the head with it. When Sammy Davis imitated Dean Martin, a roar came from the wings: "How the hell can I be onstage when I'm still in the toilet?" Most of the humor came from the same direction; "Dino" sang: "Nothing could be finer than to shack up with a minor," and "I'm dancing with tears in my eyes because the girl in my arms...
...years since the first Summer Show in Sir Joshua Reynolds' day, only two younger artists had ever been shown at the Academy. One was Joan Floyd of Bristol, who had a painting hung in 1928 when she was 14, but gave up her career for marriage. The other was Master (later Sir) Edwin Landseer, whose Portrait of a Mule and Portrait of a Pointer Bitch and Puppy created a sensation in 1915 when Landseer was only...