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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tagliavini had met buxom Pia Tassinari (still her stage name) in Sicily during the war. They were singing opposite each other in Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz in Palermo. Suddenly the air-raid sirens screamed. Audience and singers scurried for shelter. Then Tenor Tagliavini, who had taken an instant shine to the black-eyed soprano, got his chance. In the darkness of the shelter, says he, he murmured "sweet words of comfort...
...Capp filled his Li'l Abner space with season's greetings to his pals, but Washington Publisher "Cissie" Patterson, who is mad at Walter Winchell and her ex-son-in-law, Drew Pearson, had their names routed out. Times-Herald readers who phoned in about the empty spaces were blandly told: typographical error...
...September, Pierre Courtade, correspondent for Paris' Communist daily, L'Humanite, got a U.S. visa only after promising to stay on the reservation (the U.N. and New York City areas) and to do no anti-American propagandizing...
...wage, a two-day week; at a discreet banquet for bankers, he whispers for a two-day wage, an eight-day week. Elsewhere, discussing the problems of inflation and deflation, he takes his stand fearlessly, without compromise, "For Flation." He also picks up an honorary Ph.D. from the Edgar L. Eubanks College of Animal Husbandry and Modern Fertilizing Methods...
Games W L WINTHROP 3 3 0 DUDLEY 3 2 1 DUNSTER 3 2 1 ELIOT 3 2 1 LOWELL 3 2 1 ADAMS 3 1 2 KIRKLAND 3 0 3 LEVERETT...