Word: naomi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louise Homer, 76, onetime (1898-1932) contralto in the Metropolitan's Golden Era of Caruso, Melba, Farrar, Scotti, Tetrazzini; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Daughter of a Pennsylvania minister, she launched her career at 14 by singing Ruth in a church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted her to wear...
...Upsala College, East Orange, N. J., Naomi Sylvia Charner, vice president of Phi Omega Chi sorority, turned in her pin because the sorority had refused admission to a Negro student. Retorted a sorority sister: "It's only kindness to keep from pledging a Negro girl. After all, there are so many places Negroes can't go socially...
...both sides of the street in heavily Democratic Arizona, although they obviously preferred the Republican side. Kansas-born Gene Pulliam likes that side, too; in Indianapolis he has been an active GOPromoter. As secretary-treasurer of his new Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., he listed "N. G. Mason," who is Mrs. Naomi Mason Pulliam. "Nina" Pulliam was his secretary for 15 years, has been his wife for five, once ran his Indianapolis radio station, WIRE...
...Naomi-Margret Sevetson was not original in her ideas when she told you that "men are beasts" [TIME, June 24]. What would be original would be an explanation as to why women are willing-sometimes anxious-to attach themselves to such beasts. The obvious reply from many female breasts, would be: "Because women are such fools...
...NAOMI-MARGRET SEVETSON...