Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police, tipped off by agents provocateurs known as antilops, were waiting. Le Maitre was snatched up in a Black Maria. Deprived of their master, the students were soon dispersed...
...been nine years since Maria Jeritza had sung before a New York audience, but all the old magic was still there. The 3,000 who jampacked Carnegie Hall cheered as they never had before - and many of them had bravoed many an earlier Jeritza performance. As much as anything else, the audience applauded the 58-year-old soprano's apparently in destructible beauty. In a silver-spangled white dress flown East by Hollywood's Adrian, the golden-haired diva looked like the late Jean Harlow in her prime. And when she sang her program of high-powered arias...
Innocenzo Pietropaoli fed himself and his wife Natalina and his daughter Maria by tilling his acre of land at Anticoli Corrado, a mountain village 35 miles north of Rome. Even in the remote and incredibly rich days of 1938, its produce (half of which went to the landlord) had to be carefully husbanded to feed the Pietropaolis...
G.I.s in Paris brought back news of Trenet. Others heard of him in Erich Maria Remarque's Arch of Triumph (TIME, Jan. 28), whose hero listened to Trenet on a taxicab radio. The advance buildup was so good that Trenet was signed by the Embassy Club for what amounts to about $6,500 a week. He is a bachelor...
...Died. Maria Iturbi Hero, 28, daughter of famed Spanish pianist Jose Iturbi, divorced wife of Violinist Stephen Hero, onetime boy prodigy; by her own hand (gunshot); in Beverly Hills, Calif...