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Forty-one shots fired at Amadou Diallo? Clearly, these New York City police officers were out of control [NATION, March 6]. DOROTHY MENEGHINI Norway, Mich...
...maybe Maria was ready to quit. She had married Giovanni Meneghini, a Veronese businessman 28 years her senior, who adored her but soon bored her. Walter Legge, then head of EMI records, liked to tell a story about a late night conversation with them: "Wooler undervests visible beneath their nightwear, [they were] reading Italian illustrateds." Callas decided to become Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday was a favorite film) and lost 62 Ibs. in two years. In 1956 Callas met Elsa Maxwell, who swept her into European café society and the next year introduced her to Aristotle Onassis...
Though he cared nothing for opera, Onassis immediately basked in Maria's artistic fame. She said goodbye to Meneghini and sailed away on Onassis' yacht Christina to a life of luxury and narcissism. She got her TMWL (To Maria With Love) bracelet-just as Onassis' first wife Tina had received a TTWL and his second, Jacqueline Kennedy, would get a TJWL...
...real name was Maria Kalogeropoulos. Born in Manhattan in 1923 of Greek parents, she studied music in Greece-she and her mother were trapped there by the outbreak of World War II. In 1949 she married Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an Italian construction tycoon twice her age. Meneghini sold his business, put Maria on her famous diet and became her manager. He showered her with clusters of jewelry for each new role she sang. But at the Metropolitan Opera, he insisted on receiving her salary in cash before each night's performance. This so enraged Met General Manager Rudolf Bing...
...divorced Meneghini in 1959 to live with Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate. The society columns buzzed regularly for years with accounts of their parties and travels aboard an assortment of yachts. If she was hurt when he abandoned her to marry Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968, she never showed it. As Callas liked to say, "I hate to be pitied, and I never pitied anyone...