Word: nomes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carnegie's big stage, Anna Maria had gone through a program that might have taxed many an older, more experienced singer. She had sailed confidently and surely through the coloratura flights of Rigoletto's Caro Nome and Una Voce Poco Fa from The Barber of Seville, had expertly sung the difficult death aria from La Traviata. In her pink silk party dress, hands clasped in front of her, she sang her songs in a clear sweet voice that made one listener stand up and shout in rapturous Italian: "Un' angelo dal paradiso...
...good while. In 1943 her father, now a cellist with Bologna's Teatro Comunale, then director of a music conservatory on the beleaguered island of Rhodes, wanted very much to get his family back to Italy; six-year-old Anna cinched the airplane priority by piping Caro Nome for the island's military governor. At war's end she got showers of caramels from American G.I.s by warbling Gounod's Ave Maria...
Troxell shows Matt his secret-a pressurized "pod" cockpit for jet planes which can be shot upward to land by parachute and save distressed pilots. While Matt is making himself a cool $25,000 piloting a jet from Nome over the Pole to Washington, Troxell dies when the "pod" fails in a premature test. Miss Parker accuses Matt of responsibility for this accident, warning that Troxell's ghost would come between them if they contemplated a life together. The nest day, Matt lands safely in the "pod" as his flaming plane crashes. Miss Parker rushes to him, and damn...
...experimental wonder, the JA-3, will soon be outmoded by a model with a detachable escape cockpit. Bogart falls in with Massey's greedy plans to publicize the JA3 into acceptance by the Air Force. Having risked his neck for money to fly the plane from Nome to Washington by way of the North Pole, a reformed Bogart risks it again for ideals. He tests the new model against orders and sets the Air Force straight...
...long time now I have meant to tell you about TIME'S only woman Senior Editor, Content Peckham. Our most recent inquiry about her is from Reader Charles D. Jones, placer miner, of Nome, Alaska, who wrote, in part...