Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orlando, Fla. (pop. 52,367), in a region more noted for sun tans and beauty contests, a fine, full-fledged symphony orchestra topped off its third season last week. Under the direction of Paris-born Yves (pronounced Eve) Chardon, 51, and with a glamorous assist from Metropolitan Opera Soprano Bidu Sayao, the Florida Symphony Orchestra gave a program with a polish and finesse which a more experienced orchestra might envy...
...Orlando first heard Conductor Chardon in the spring of 1950, when he came to town to lead a test concert with local amateurs. It was such a success that the music-loving citizenry decided to found an all-professional orchestra. They set a budget of $30,000 for the first season (1950-51); the bills mounted to $50,000. A large, timely gift helped them over that hump. Then a core of determined symphony enthusiasts set out to broaden the list of contributors...
Died. Francesco Saverio Nitti, 84, scholarly Italian elder statesman who was forced by Mussolini into a 20-year exile for his unflinching opposition to Fascism; of influenza; in Rome. The late Premier Vittorio Orlando's World War I Finance Minister, roly-poly Nitti was a Premier himself, in 1919-20. During Mussolini's time he found haven in Paris, returned home in 1945 to help guide Italy's political and economic rebirth, thereafter served in Parliament as an energetic liberal...
...Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank and I guess the other people sank because they had their seat belts fastened...
Died. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 92, onetime (1917-19) Italian Premier and last of the "Big Four," who (with Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau) drafted the World War I peace treaty; in Rome (see FOREIGN NEWS...