Word: marian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the time Contralto Marian Anderson first realized that she had a remarkable voice, she wanted to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. In those days, hiring a Negro artist was unthinkable at the Met. She went on the concert stage instead, and became one of the great recitalists of all time. But last week, fiftyish and famous as ever,* she sat down with the Met's General Manager Rudolf Bing and signed up for a starring role this winter...
...plea for more rational, comfortable dress among nuns, the new habit features an oxford grey skirt (slightly flared and coming just below the knee), a loose box jacket, a white Peter Pan-collared blouse, a black pillbox hat, black leather pumps with medium heels, and nylons. Said Postulant Marian Mraz, 25, modeling the new outfit: "We'll be right up to date...
...Packed so tightly that they were unable to kneel, an estimated 150,000 worshipers jammed Chicago's Soldier Field for a Marian Year Mass celebrated by Samuel Cardinal Stritch. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago. Another 100,000, unable to find even standing room, gathered outside to hear the service through loudspeakers. On the stubs of the tickets were spaces for Roman Catholics to note Marian devotions they attended or performed. The archdiocese will collect the stubs, make a summary of the devotions, and send it to Pope Pius XII as a Marian Year "spiritual bouquet...
...Simple Tune. All month long, Leo acts as Ted's and Marian's go-between, carrying the messages which Marian says are business arrangements. Not even Marian's hardboiled, matchmaking mother guesses that the young boy may be the ruin of her snobbish plans. And when one day Leo glimpses a few lines in one of Marian's letters ("Darling, darling, darling, same time, same place, this evening"), and is struck all of a heap by the revelation, it is for a disillusioned schoolboy's reason, not a scandalized adult's. "How could...
...exact relation to classes and countries outside its own. He also has a simple tune to play on his symbols-for Leo (the lion) stands for a young England ignorant of the social upheaval that the new century is destined to bring in. with such lawbreakers as Ted and Marian as its forerunners. But not effective forerunners, for Heroine Marian, despite her love and passion for Farmer Ted, is too Victorian to crash the class barrier. When Leo at last asks: "Marian, why don't you marry Ted?'', she only bursts into tears and wails: "I couldn...