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A dozen of the Metropolitan's once-great singers went to Manhattan's Town Hall last week. Frances Alda, Giovanni Martinelli, Maria Jeritza, Karin Branzell and Elisabeth Rethberg sat in the audience. On stage was the oldest of them all, roly-poly, 69-year-old Giuseppe de Luca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How Do You Do | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Roly-poly (219 Ibs.) George Allen is a regular card. One of his favorite stories is about the time he was captain of a Cumberland University football team, beaten 222-to-0 by Georgia Tech. George likes to say that he made Cumberland's best run -"I only got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Everybody Loves a Fat Man | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Don't Look Now. The Post's rambunctious history began one day in 1895 when blue-eyed, roly-poly Harry Tammen, bartender at Denver's Windsor Hotel, strolled into the littered city room of the old Evening Post. At his side was a new-found friend, swarthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ep Hoyt & the Hussy | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

With Lou Decsi's 23 tallies setting the pace, Coach Stahl's crack five extended its new winning streak to three in humbling the hapless Worcester Poly quintet by a score of 68 to 47 Wednesday evening before a crowd of 400 at the Indoor Athletic Building. The Jayvees made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Tops WPI 68 to 47 In Tune-up for Brown Tilt | 2/8/1946 | See Source »

In a Europe that is steadily congealing into collectivism, a middleaged, roly-poly, red-haired Italian is successfully preaching the gospel of individualism. His message: the future belongs not to the politicians but to uomo qualunque (the common man). Last week a stream of converts-horny-handed artisans, lacquered Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Common Men | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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