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...even went to such extremes as castration to break out,* but occasionally a voice comes along that needs no adjustment to make musical news: the thrilling voice of Soprano Lucrezia Agujari, which rose almost three octaves from middle D; the freak voice of the 19th century's Eugenia Mela, a woman who sang tenor; the incongruous bass voice of a three-year-old boy in Prague in 1936; and, more recently, the voice of Peruvian Yma Sumac, whose singing voice covers four octaves...
...journeyed to the Rajasthan village of Bourai. 60 miles from Udaipur. and made arrangements for a mela-an all-night feast with dancing and speechmaking. When the drummers had spread the news abroad, 7,000 Bhils turned up-men, women and children. At the height of the party, tall, spectacled Rameshwar Tantia stood up. He had some presents, he said, for his sisters, the Bhil women, and he flung open the suitcases he had brought with...
...miniature mountainside chapel. In Ferrer, 37, Audrey had her first husband. In Audrey, 25. Ferrer, whose knightly charms have led to some confusion at the altar in the past, had a fourth marriage and third wife; he had four children (Pepa, 13, Mark, 10, by wife No. 1; Mela, 12, Christopher, 11, by wife No. 2), remarried wife No. 1, who divorced him last December in Juárez. Friends and relatives wished the newlyweds well as they took off for a Roman honeymoon...
Recently he solemnly declared that "the cause for the deterioration in health is the smallpox vaccination." Last April, though greatly desiring to attend the Kumbh-mela held at Hardwar (TIME, May 1), Tandon stayed away because cholera inoculations were compulsory for all pilgrims. Tandon has complained that Nehru's approach to public health is almost the same as that of the British; e.g,, he advocates distribution of medicine made by Western methods and is in favor of injecting people's bodies with poisonous drugs. So revered by Tandon is the sanctity of animal life that he condemns leather...
...heaven with the urn, four drops of nectar fell to the ground from the vessel. Where the drops formed pools, every pious Hindu who bathes may end his earthly cycle of births and deaths, and release his soul into union with God. Best time to bathe is Kumbh-mela (Urn Festival), which occurs once every twelve years in each of the four cities where the drops fell. Last month, it was Kumbh-mela in Hardwar, at the headwaters of the Ganges where the water is clear and blue. Hindus believe that a bath in the Ganges at any time...