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As soon as the curtain dropped on the performance of Bellini's Norma, fist fights erupted, insults bounced be tween boxes, and the grandly helmeted Gardes Républicaines clanked into action. One bejeweled matron tore the glasses off a startled young man next to her; another dug her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Right in the Heart of Paris | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

Hidden Records. In the quickie heyday, thousands of outsiders flocked to Alabama to get divorced between lunch and cocktails. Alabama acquired-for at least an hour-such famous citizens as baseball's Hank Greenberg, Mrs. Aristotle ("Tina") Onassis and TV's John Daly (so he could marry the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courts: Slowdown for Quickie Divorces | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

With every Mediterranean ripple, jumpy wire service editors cabled their Athens correspondents to find out where Jackie Kennedy and the Onassis yacht Christina were. No one could say. Only the White House was able to keep tabs with a special microwave hookup. Culture-conscious Jackie was charting her own Odyssey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 18, 1963 | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Just to keep things from getting dull, Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis sailed his 325-ft. pleasure palace, the Christina, to Jackie's whitewashed villa and put the yacht at her disposal. Jackie had no trouble finding uses for it. She threw a dinner party and a midnight shipboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Grecian Holiday | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

Glamorous Maria Callas, 39-long the favorite diva of Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis-stepped onstage at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, and her audience succumbed to love at first sight. Not so German critics, who ungallantly complained about the sound. "The passion has disappeared," said Die Welt's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

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