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...Amsterdam hotel, Lenora Lafayette, 26, American Negro soprano, stopped to answer the phone before going out for some lunch. Could she get to London by 7 p.m. prompt? Soprano Lafayette said yes: "And then they told me I had to leave the hotel by 2 to catch a plane. You know, I was so excited when I put the phone down, I just ran around the room for ten minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Aida for a Night | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...Lenora Lafayette of Baton Rouge, La., the role of the dusky Aïda was the chance of a lifetime. The daughter of a bricklayer who worked his way up to manager of a contracting company, Lenora made up her mind at 17 to be a singer. With her father backing her to the limit, she went to Tennessee's Fisk University, then to Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. Three years ago she won a traveling scholarship to Europe. She had mastered the leads in Butterfly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Aida for a Night | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Code. In Manhattan, Mrs. Lenora Norman won a divorce after testimony that her husband, a preacher, brought women home with him to spend the night, but objected to her smoking and knitting as sinful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...Miss) LENORA WHITMAN Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Wodehouse once wrote five librettos at the same time, for shows that appeared simultaneously. Baldish, florid-faced, 49, he lives in London, but last spring visited the U. S., went to Holly-wood on a new departure: to write for the cinema. With him went his daughter Lenora ("Snorks") who some months prior had tactfully smuggled out from a party two newly-engaged guests who were giving themselves away in front of a concealed microphone (TIME, Mar. 3). Other Wodehouse items: A Damsel in Distress, Fish Preferred, The Inimitable Jeeves, Leave it to Psmith, Three Men and a Maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Biscuit & Berry* | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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