Word: mimis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Papa César founded the Paris hotel whose name became a synonym for class. Mama Mimi, after her husband's death, boarded Nazis during the Occupation, keeping the Allies posted on their travels. Last week Charles Ritz, 72, now Chairman of Paris' Ritz, flew to Manhattan to check into the strategies of Europe's latter-day invaders. He sampled a $90-a-day suite at the New York Hilton, ran his finger over the moldings, ordered snacks in from room service (usually in the wee hours), and emerged from his experiment reassured. "The Hilton is good...
...MIMI PAUL, 21, daughter of a Washington physician and a fashion designer, trained in Washington and abroad before joining the New York City Ballet in 1960. She is cast in the classical mold, a perfectly proportioned ballerina of ravishing grace and serene lyricism. Her expressive arms, arching back, and regal stage presence lend grandeur to a role, as exemplified by her Adagio in Symphony...
...Mimi, which she has sung at La Scala, Mirella Freni, 29, an Italian lyric soprano of talent and beauty, can hold her own with Tebaldi, De los Angeles and Moffo. Her voice is easy and focused, but her particular strength as the little seamstress is her touching youthfulness. Tenor Ni colai Gedda is equally melodious and moving as her lover. Thomas Schippers conducts the Rome Opera House Orches tra and Chorus impetuously but artfully...
...Dizzy does blithe acrobatics with his trumpet, then stands aside for the legendary expatriates Bud Powell and Kenny Clark to shine briefly on piano and drums. In the meanwhile, the Double Six, a sextet of jazz singers, chime in like an instrumental combo, and Mimi Perrin, who has an extraordinarily agile voice, even takes on a couple of solos meant for Charlie Parker's horn...
Married. Peter Arrell Brown Widener HI, 39, Florida sportsman, great-grandson and namesake of the Philadelphia butcher who parlayed the profits from selling meat to the Union Army into a $100 million real estate empire; and Frances Miriam (Mimi) Crenshaw, 22, Delta Air Lines stewardess; he for the third time (his first wife divorced him in 1958, his second died in a February 1963 plane crash); in Palm Beach Gardens...