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...himself, with a fast, toothy grin, as "both a saint and a devil." Last year, his frothy, obstetrical opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias -in which one character changes sex on stage and another litters the footboards with a good share of his 40,000 babies-created the noisiest scandal in Paris since the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Like the Rite, however, it is still going strong...
Unreal Morning. That night in Jerusalem was the noisiest since Partition Day. Arab Legion artillery and mortar shells crashed into the Jewish quarters of the new town, kicked up clouds of white smoke and dust. Red tracers streaked across the domed roofs of the Old City. At dawn the Jews sent one last burst into the Arab positions. A shell exploded on the balcony of an Arab hospital, killing an attendant. As he was carried out of the ward, head hanging limply, a nurse whimpered: "He is dead. Did you see him die? He would have lived if the truce...
...season's noisiest courtship approached a quiet wedding. After nearly seven bumpy months of stops & starts, separations & reunions, rumors & denials, and considerable mixing & marching by relatives, ex-King Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma flew down to Athens from Geneva to get it done in private. Announced the Royal Palace: Roman Catholic Anne would positively marry Greek Orthodox Michael this week in the Greek Orthodox Church. Sole witnesses to be present: the royal families, the Greek Premier, and the Foreign Minister and his wife...
...spots; the role was obviously tiring for her. But backed by a cast that ' made every word and nuance understandable, and by Jean Morel's fine conducting, she gave a performance for a sellout City Opera audience that few would soon forget. In one of the noisiest ovations of the year, they let her know...
...noisiest journalistic joust of the decade, the battle began three days before Pearl Harbor, when a rich newcomer, Marshall Field, started his liberal Chicago Sun to fight McCormick's well-entrenched, isolationist Tribune. One bitter morning last week, while frozen-fingered printers picketed Field's plant on windswept Wacker Drive, the battle ended. The Sun gave up the ghost and merged with Field's afternoon tabloid Times. This week, when the Sun & Times went on the newsstands, there were few recognizable Sunbeams...