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...Voice, Too. Soprano Moffo's success at the Met caps a career that developed almost by accident. The daughter of an Italian-descended shoemaker, Anna grew up in Wayne. Pa., made her debut at seven, singing Mighty Lak' a Rose in a school assembly program. After that she sang in choirs, school recitals, at weddings and funerals, without ever taking a lesson. When she left school, she turned down a Hollywood offer because she wanted to, become a nun. Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing...
...playfulness that can easily hurt a man (he once blacked Winfrey's eye merely by lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That's how I stand up," Murray...
Dixie Dew. The 81-year-old Constitution saw its greatest days in the era of Publisher Evan Howell, famed Editor Henry Woodfin Grady, Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, and Frank (Mighty Lak a Rose) Stanton. Under the late Clark Howell Sr., it also fought the Ku Klux Klan and won a Pulitzer Prize (1931) for exposing municipal graft. But the present Clark Howell and his liberal but erratic Editor Ralph McGill have let Cox & Co. take the play away. Example: while the Constitution merely deplored Herman Talmadge, the Journal campaigned aggressively against him, and Reporter George Goodwin won a Pulitzer...
...Sidewalks of New York -and Jim Farley, who got the biggest hand of all when he said he was glad to be there. Margaret Truman begged off singing The Star Spangled Banner at both dinners because she had laryngitis. At the Mayflower, Opera Singer Helen Jepson sang Mighty Lak' a Rose, looking straight at Harry Truman the while...
Neville Chamberlain went back to England then, and many years later an Andros native, who had been on hand at the chopping, dropped over to Nassau and learned that Britain was at war and Chamberlain Prime Minister. "We gwine lost dat war," said Old Mose. "Chickcharneys doan lak dat man." And for a while it seemed he was right...