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...Married. Nino Martini, 42, short (5 ft. 7), tall-voiced (high F) Metropolitan Opera tenor; and Nancy Maloney Tafel, 26; he for the first time, she for the second; in Stamford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Service is an Army nurse on furlough in Son Francisco who has seen the horrors of battle in the South Pacific. One girl back in the war none years for a bottle of Chanel No. 5; another, for a Nino Martini record. Bernice fulfills her errands for them, and then realizes there is one that remains undone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 12/15/1944 | See Source »

Life in Mount Allegro was warm, noisy and often violent and profane. Uncle Nino in a fit of temporary madness tried to kill his brother with a flatiron. Children at too early an age learned the meaning and implications of epithets like strafalaria (genteel translation: loose woman). And often, at night, the sky hung like a smoldering sulphurous ceiling above the optical factory that squatted on the banks of the Genesee River. "Underneath it my relatives sang and played guitars and, if they noticed the sky at all, they were reminded of the lemon groves in Sicily. They were stubborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Wine, New Bottle | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

Sopranos Emma Calvé, Emmy Destinn, Olive Fremstad, Marcella Sembrich, Marion Talley; Tenors Nino Martini, Lauritz Melchior; Baritone Pasquale Amato; Violinist Efrem Zimbalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music's Moneybags | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...William G. Mulligan, counsel for the Teachers Union, chief target of Mr. Windels' investigation. Mr. Mulligan demanded the right to cross-examine witnesses, was finally ejected by two policemen. Then Mr. Windels introduced his star witness, a genial Brooklyn College English professor named Bernard David Nino Grebanier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reds in Brooklyn | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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