Word: mario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vocal Sacrifice. Adler and Chotzinoff rounded up a group of young singers, among them one Mario Lanza, schooled them in acting, had them rehearse English versions of La Boheme and Figaro. As Adler tells it, one night he "trapped" RCA Boss General Sarnoff at a dinner party, and hustled out his little group to sing. When the music ended. Sarnoff looked accusingly at Adler, then sighed: "O.K., put them on the air." Adler & Co. went on the air in 1949, have been on ever since...
Besides Cleary, three other ex-Crimson standouts are also competing for the 17-man U.S. squad. They are: Mario Celi '56 and Joe Crehore '56 from last year's Ivy Championship team, and Doug Manchester '55 who played wing on Cleary's line on the Crimson's Eastern Titlists...
...Among them: Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Tenor Mario del Monaco, Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni...
...Died. Mario Ponzio, 71, cancer researcher and professor of radiology (since 1936) at the University of Turin, who underwent 19 operations to delay his inevitable death from radium burns suffered in his experiments, in 1955 was awarded Italy's highest honor, the Gold Medal for Valor; in Turin, Italy...
...part of their woes the Reds can thank an increasingly tough campaign by the Italian government to curb their power. Starting less than three years ago under then-Premier Mario Scelba, the government forced Communists out of some newspaper plants illegally occupied during the last days of World War II, then ordered state-owned businesses to stop advertising in Red papers. When private businessmen also pulled out, advertising virtually vanished from the Communist press. Furthermore, where the Reds once got all the newsprint they wanted from Iron Curtain nations on unlimited credit terms, the Italian government refused import permits except...