Word: pinza
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Citation: "Imaginative, resourceful, vehement, volcanic. A doctor to the drama, he cuts out whole scenes, resets parts, injects vitality, and makes things move. He pushed Pinza about, put Mary Martin in a shower, kept Ethel Merman tough, and who but Logan could bring it about that 'Bloody Mary Is the Girl I Love'? A disciple of the classic dramatists, he makes his audience see and feel what human nature...
...other jockey alive or dead. When Gordon Richards' name turned up last week on Queen Elizabeth's honors list, with word that he was to receive the first knighthood ever conferred on a jockey, millions of Britons beamed with sentiment. Five days later they made his horse Pinza a 5-1 co-favorite to win the one great race in which Jockey Richards had never had a winner in 27 years of trying: the Epsom Derby...
Over the roller-coaster mile-and-a-half turf of Epsom Downs, Jockey Richards and Pinza justified their bettors' faith. At the last turn, famed Tattenham Corner, Richards saved ground by snugging close along the curving rail. In the stretch. where Richards' other horses have been tiring for a generation, Pinza proved to be a stayer. At the finish, Richards had his first Derby winner, by four lengths. Second in the field of 27: Queen Elizabeth's Aureole...
...Henry, 22), was named "Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day (June 21) Committee. Other fathers picked as the best family men in their fields: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle ("Humanitarian Father"), Alben W. Berkley (radio), Rocky Marciano (sports), Melvyn Douglas (stage), Ezio Pinza (music), Danny Thomas (cinema), John Daly (TV). Cited as "Father's Favorite Female": Beatrice Lillie...
...Ezio Pinza, as Fiodor Chaliapin, the greatest basso of all time, seems to bring back some of the grandeur of the eccentric, boisterous Russian's voice. Singing the Coronation scene from Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, he booms forth with amazing volume and gusto. Excerpts from Gounod's Faust also receive the same resounding treatment...