Word: lanza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, Pasternak begins with a pretty soprano (Kathryn Grayson) warbling an aria. An itinerant celebrity (Jose Iturbi) is beating the fake rosebushes for young opera stars. Tunneling into this setup is a manly young truck driver (Mario Lanza) who has just the bouncing good looks and tenor voice to team up with the soprano...
...pleasant surprise in That Midnight Kiss is Mario Lanza, a young (27) tenor with the spry, nonsensical air of a chipmunk and an Americanized-Caruso voice which gives style and seriousness to the whole production. His least appealing quality, which Metro will apparently exploit for some ten musicals, is the smily, complacent bounce which places him in Hollywood's long list of boys who rouse the maternal instinct...
...clear study of the continent as an invasion objective has come from a remarkable but little-known U.S. Army figure: 65-year-old Colonel Conrad H. Lanza, retired. At his home in Manchester, N.H., Colonel Lanza reads the newspapers, tunes in foreign broadcasts with a short-wave receiver, studies maps, applies the background knowledge acquired during 44 years as an army officer. Results: articles which at times have made General Staff officers gasp and wonder where Colonel Lanza was getting his "secret" information...
...Conrad Lanza was born (in New York) of a titled Italian family, according to Army friends. He looked the part in his early army years. Tall, slender, boasting both a mustache and a Vandyke beard, he had been commissioned a lieutenant when he was 20, was a captain at 25. At that time, in 1903, most captains were nearer 40. Lanza played the piano "beautifully," spoke five languages (including French, German, Italian), made a brilliant record as a staff officer, was decorated for his work as an artillery staffer in France during World...
...June issue of the Field Artillery Journal, Colonel Lanza published a piece called Routes into Europe: A Study in Terrain. He did not attempt to predict the time or the places, of invasion, but he did show where it would be easiest, hardest and nearest to the eventual objective-Berlin. Some of his points...