Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finest was Victor Maurel. Since he introduced the role at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, it has also been sung there by the late Antonio Scotti and by Lawrence Tibbett. Last week the Met presented its fourth Falstaff: big, pudgy 33-year-old Leonard Warren, whose suave baritoning was the hit of last summer's opera season at Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón (TIME...
What Could He Lose? Leonard Warren reversed the usual U.S. operatic procedure and changed an exotic name to more familiar syllables. He was born Warrenoff in The Bronx, where his Russian-born father ran a fur shop. After graduating from Evander Childs High School he helped with his father's fur business, studying advertising at Columbia on the side. He also took some singing lessons. They might have remained a hobby but for the depression which crimped the fur business...
...glance at the British War Office report-War Damage to Historic Monuments of South Italy-might have moderated some letter writers' fears. The report, compiled by Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, archeological adviser to the British War Cabinet, who visited the Allied sections of Italy to check up on war damage, was comparatively optimistic...
...Britain's birth rate on Sept. 30, 1943 was 16.2 per 1,000, highest in 17 years. But a vital-statistics authority, Sir Leonard Hill, said last week: "We cannot be satisfied until it has gone up to something over 19. ... There are too many old people and far too few young to make a vigorous nation...
...confused with J. K. Smit & Sons, Inc., one of the world's greatest industrial diamond companies. Leonard J. A. Smit is no relation, nor has he any connection with the company...