Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble getting singing jobs in Broadway shows, at the New York World's Fair, in Radio City Music Hall (billing himself as Robert Field). For a while he was master of ceremonies in Manhattan's big, lowbrow nightclub, Leon & Eddie's. But for a man who wanted to get into opera, he seemed to be making no progress at all. By 1947, Tenor Rounseville, aged 30, found himself in vaudeville...
...City Opera's energetic little Director Laszlo Halasz had pulled out all the stops to put on Troubled Island; he had Haitian Jean Leon Destine and his troupe to do the voodoo dances. He would have had to look far for a better baritone than the Met's burly Robert Weede to sing the lead role of Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian slave who made himself (in 1804) an emperor, then a tyrant, only to be duped by his mistress and shot in the back. With Marie (The Medium) Powers as the rejected wife who came back faithfully...
...never has, but Lupe had borne him two girls). Diego and Frida moved into her sparkling Spanish-colonial home in Coyoacan (a Mexico City suburb). There, in the course of time, came many old and new friends of Diego. One of them, after Diego soured on Stalin, was Leon Trotsky. For almost two years (1938-39), Trotsky lived as the Riveras' guest, writing his life of Stalin, and awaiting his assassins. It was not until 15 months after Trotsky had moved out that the assassins caught up with him (TIME, Sept...
...apologist for any group. He is truly a most remarkable man . . . Dr. Shipler and The Churchman expound Americanism in every line . . . They both abhor race discrimination and the evil politics of the Vatican, but most of all they cry out for world peace ... As for the Rev. Leon M. Birkhead, I have nothing but honest contempt...
...account of the trials and tribulations of Editor Guy Shipler, The Churchman, and especially the criticism of Unitarian Leon Birkhead [TIME, Feb. 28] points up a dangerous tendency in American religio-political thinking. One is made increasingly aware that the Roman Catholic hierarchy is trying desperately, and with some success, to sell America on the idea that we must choose between Rome and Moscow; that to defeat Communism, we must strengthen the power of Catholicism . . . America need not go either to Rome or Moscow for leadership. We need a new appreciation for the ideals of true democracy which our founding...