Word: mario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories which tell the ways in which people with different cultural heritages think, act and live. Much help in this effort comes from the stringers, who are usually citizens and top journalists of the countries they cover for TIME. Among them are Bolivian Columnist Walter Montenegro, Chilean Radio Commentator Mario Planet and Peruvian Correspondent Thomas A. Loayza, a veteran of such varied assignments as the Spanish Civil War and the eighth Pan-American Conference...
...elections. Its dominance over Italy's trade unions had been seriously challenged by the rise of the anti-Communist CISL (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Liberi); its recent attempts at political strikes had fizzled miserably; its strong-arm squads had been routed and its hidden arsenals uncovered by Interior Minister Mario Scelba's security forces. Internal defection, led by Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi (TIME, Feb. 12), had rocked it to its heels. What the party needed at an obviously low ebb was a shot of optimism. The No. I comrade, Palmiro Togliatti, just back from a cure in Moscow...
...rehearsal, Conductor Vladimir Bakaleinikoff had a hard time with Mario's squealing admirers. At one point Lanza started a stampede by throwing his handkerchief into the crowd. Cried Bakaleinikoff, when the uproar subsided for a moment: "This is a symphony orchestra. You must be verrry quiet-shut...
Lights Out. Some of Pittsburgh's regular concertgoers were among the 4,100 who jammed into the act on the big night. In arias from Rigoletto and Pagliacci, Mario proved to the cynics' surprise that he really has a voice. The ring and power of his high notes almost makes up for his lack of real musical taste. Called back by cheer after cheer, Mario gave them as an encore his current bestselling tune, Be My Love. That really blew a fuse; at any rate, the lights went out. The police provided an extra squad to get Mario...
Ambitious Mario wants to sing in opera at La Scala next October. But before that time, he has more towns awaiting him on his concert swing: Columbus, Philadelphia, Miami Beach and 14 others. And he is due back in Hollywood in May to make another movie...