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Among the operagoers who heard Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco sing at Milan's La Scala last week was a blind woman named Irene Meyer, 33, from Gaithersburg, Md. Two years before, she had heard him sing Radames in Aïda at Manhattan's Metropolitan. Stricken with incurable diabetes, Irene told friends in Gaithersburg that what she wanted most of all was to hear Del Monaco once again. What happened could have happened only in the U.S., where people 1) form committees, 2) believe that dreams come true. Irene went to Milan on funds donated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The C.T.E.I.T.L.A.T.H.T. | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...production of The Student Prince went before the cameras after a two-year delay precipitated by the temperamental walkout of pudgy Tenor Mario Lanza. The film will star British Newcomer Edmund Purdon, no singer, who will act out the songs, with gestures, to the sound-track voice of Lanza, who recorded the songs before he left the studio. Said Actor Purdon: "When I first heard [Lanza's recording], I thought it was full of excesses and a bit hammy. He sings as if he were in perpetual ecstasy. Then I realized how good that is because it gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: In Hollywood | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...defensive pair in New England and perhaps in the country in Jeff Coolidge and Ed Mrkonich. Behind them he had three more hard-hitting lettermen in Tony Patton, Ned Almy, and Jim Moynihan. And he had Pete Summers and Mario Celi up from last year's Yardling team...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Injuries, Ineligibilities Hinder Squad | 12/8/1953 | See Source »

...outside of a few Spanish-American centers, Lara's songs are little known. Two exceptions: You Belong to My Heart (1943) and Granada, recorded by Bing Crosby and Mario Lanza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lovers' Lamenter | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

There is one outstanding freshman practicing with the Yardlings who won't play a game all year, but may be of help to Jordan next year. He is Mario Ricci, a transfer student from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he played in the plebe backfield last year...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: "They Have the Potential. . . " | 10/30/1953 | See Source »

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