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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...
...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...
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...
...Miss) LENORA WHITMAN Chicago...
...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...