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Flying Colors. Last week Gwyneth Jones was put to her severest test yet, stepping in for the ailing Leontyne Price to sing the demanding role of Leonora in the opening of Covent Garden's new production of II Trovatore. She passed with flying colors, though she was scored for occasionally giving too free a rein to her voice when spiraling into the upper registers. What thrilled the audiences was the raw power of her bright, heroic soprano, a tidal wave of a voice that all but drowned out Tenor Bruno Prevedi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Presto Change | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...liveliest of three royal sisters, leggy (5 ft. 8 in.), slim (120 Ibs., 22-in. waist) Anne-Marie will also be the first at the altar-as well as the first Danish princess to marry a reigning monarch since 1680, when Sweden's King Karl XI took Ulrika Leonora as his Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandinavia: And a Nurse to Tuck You In | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...early stages, the worst of the fighting was centered in a small town, eleven miles west of the Georgetown capital. Last week the violence flared all across the unhappy colony. One night in Leonora, ten miles west of Georgetown, a band of terrorists attacked a police patrol, killed two constables and escaped with their rifles. Next morning an elderly Negro couple was found shot to death on their nearby farm. At news of the killings, a raging mob of Negroes halted a Georgetown-bound train and in a vicious melee left 17 East Indians injured, including one victim with both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Guiana: Race War | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...MISS LEONORA WHEN LAST SEEN, by Peter Taylor. Fifteen stories of marriages and families, institutions and hypocrisies, most of them set in the South. Taylor's knowledge of his settings and the elegance of his writing make the collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 10, 1964 | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...MISS LEONORA WHEN LAST SEEN, by Peter Taylor. Fifteen stories about corrosive marriages and disfiguring age-quiet stories, right on target, that may well outlive their flashier contemporaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 27, 1964 | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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