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Dining at Maxim's in Paris on her tenth wedding anniversary, high-strung Operatic Soprano Maria Callas, 35, made a pronouncement between helpings of selle d'agneau à la Callas. Manhattan-born Singer Callas attributed most of her professional success to the offstage support of her Milan tycoon husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 64: "When I met him I was the most ridiculous singer of Italy, and he, a wealthy industrialist who owned 20 building-material plants, said, 'You have the most beautiful voice in the world,' and-thanks to his tenacity, his persuasion and his constant...
Start at the Bottom. Though they have been in business 26 years, it is only in the past several years that Unterberg, Towbin has won star billing. Manhattan-born Dutch Unterberg, 57, studied banking in Europe, started a one-man, over-the-counter firm in 1932, after the brokerage firm he was with dissolved. Brooklyn-born Partner Towbin, 48, went to Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard Business School, got a job with Unterberg at $11 a week...
...touchy Cuba, where Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith, a political appointee, had just resigned under rebel criticism (TIME, Jan. 19), the U.S. State Department last week prepared to rush one of its top careermen, Manhattan-born, Yale-educated Philip Bonsai...
...Manhattan-born Shari has been aiming at one audience or another since she pulled her first rabbit out of a hat at the age of four. A broken leg in adolescence ended her dream of becoming a professional dancer, so she turned to ventriloquism. A year later, at 18, she had her own TV show, has had one or more ever since. Today her pell-mell schedule leaves her about an hour and a half a day to herself, during which "I look at my husband...
...Welcome Mr. De Sapio, Beloved Son of our Soil!" read the signs. Out of his long, black car stepped greying, carefully tailored Carmine De Sapio, Manhattan-born boss of Tammany Hall, on a visit to dusty, tiny (pop. 5,000) Monteforte Irpino, the Italian village his father left 50 years ago to migrate to the U.S. After viewing the site of the old family home (razed years ago), De Sapio, who speaks no Italian, walked through flower-and-confetti-strewn streets with the mayor, drew the hoopla reserved for rich visitors: a brass band, fireworks, cheering crowds. But with...