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...opera, but I thought it would be fun"), was more surprised than anybody else when he won. Since a contract with the company was part of the prize, "that sort of threw me into opera." He gradually worked into leading roles: Papageno in the Magic Flute, Golaud in Pelléas and Mélisande...
About four weeks after he had sent that cable, Gibney, injured when a bridge was blown up by the South Koreans, was writing a different kind of dispatch from Korea. He told of the North Koreans' smash across the 38th parallel, and described the pell-mell retreat of civilians from the capital...
Died. Isabel Townsend Pell. 51, New York socialite and a heroine of the French underground during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After brief flings at real estate, the stage and auto racing, she joined the Maquis in 1940 at her summer home, in Auribeau on the Riviera. Known as "Fredericka" and la fille å la mėche blonde (because of a lock of white hair on her forehead), she served the Resistance movement for four years, once rescued 16 U.S. paratroopers stranded behind enemy lines...
...fact that the U.S. now faces such a guessing-game future is the product of many miscalculations and many failures-the pell-mell postwar demobilization which plunged the most powerful air force in history to a strength of two fully operative combat groups by 1946; the persistent misreading of Russian capabilities and intentions; the failure to understand the implications of the revolutionary combination of jet air power, atomic weapons and electronic controls. The fact that there is now a plan calculated to reassert U.S. power is primarily a result of the Air Force's fierce campaign for recognition...
There, next morning, the fugitive found white-mustached Ambassador Alberto Serrano Pellé mowing his lawn. When she asked asylum, the ambassador curtly refused. There was a sharp argument.* "Thank you," snapped Evelyn, "I won't forget this." Serrano shouted: "I won't forget it either!" Desperate, Evelyn ran out, hailed a taxi and went to the Ecuadorian embassy, which she had previously feared to try because the Seguridad had guards on watch outside. Suddenly ordering the driver to stop, she skipped in the side door past three flatfooted Seguridad sentinels. Inside, she got a quick "Yes" from...