Word: nicolas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Luigi Alva, Nicola Zaccaria, Fritz Ollendorff; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Alceo Galliera; Angel, 3 LPs). Callas' adroitly wrought Rosina strikes a precarious balance between bubbly naivetè and a subliminal Latin wisdom as shrewd as a fishwife's eye. The Callas voice is in soaring form, buttressed by Baritone Gobbi's smooth, superbly flexible rendering of the role of Figaro and Basso Zaccaria's sumptuous, tomfoolish Basilio. Conductor Galliera provides the coherence and dramatic drive necessary to Rossini's comic frenzy...
Born. To Maria Pia, 23, Princess Royal of the House of Savoy, daughter of ex-King Umberto of Italy, and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 33: twin sons, their first children; in Paris. Names: Dimitri Nicola Paulo Girogio Maria and Michel Umberto Antonio Pietro Maria. Weights: 7 lbs. 1 oz. and 5 lbs. 13 oz. respectively...
Died. Alvan Tufts Fuller, 80, onetime (1925-29) Republican governor of Massachusetts, who backed up the state judiciary, decided not to delay the electrocution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti beyond Aug. 23, 1927; in Boston. A wealthy auto dealer (Packard) and onetime (1917-21) U.S. Congressman, Fuller was beset by pressure from near and far to intervene in behalf of the condemned men. After he appointed a committee headed by Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, which reviewed all testimony and supported the jury's decision that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty of murder, the New York Times editorialized...
Married. Helmut Dantine. 39, Austrian-born cinemactor (War and Peace); and Nicola Mae Schenck, 24, daughter of Cinemagnate (Loews, Inc.) Nicholas M. Schenck; he for the second time, she for the first; in Port Washington...
...death of the Vatican librarian, Giovanni Cardinal Mercati (TIME, Sept. 2), a scholar who understood Aramaic and the intricacies of racing cars and rocketry, which left the Vatican without a high-ranking scientific adviser during the rush of Sputnik-sparked technological developments; 2) the serious illness (since October) of Nicola Cardinal Canali, which reduced to one the number of active cardinal deacons.* Only ailing, half-blind Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 67, now remains to stand in the deacons' place beside the Pope during long ceremonies...