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...Beverly Sills left Bubbles Silverman behind? Far from it. What might be called the Bubbles dimension in Beverly Sills is the leaven that, added to her enormous talents, makes her the extraordinary personality and professional that she is. It keeps her the least pretentious of prima donnas?earthy, quick-witted, a little bit kooky. It gives her a natural, womanly radiance that suffuses any room or opera house...
...billed as "the youngest prima donna in captivity," she joined the touring J.J. Shubert operetta company, starring in Gilbert and Sullivan the first season and in The Merry Widow and The Countess Maritza the second. More dubious engagements followed on the borscht circuit and at a private after-hours club in Manhattan, where she wheeled a piano around the room and performed light classics for tips that sometimes totaled $150 a night. In response to Papa's pleas that she at least devote herself to grand opera, she signed with the Charles Wagner Opera Co., a provincial touring unit. Opera...
...letter to Census Director George H. Brown the nine residents document "a prima facie case for (voter) discrimination in Cambridge" and ask "a finding of fact" as to the percentage of those eligible who actually voted for President here in 1968. If this figure falls under 50 per cent--by authority of the 1965 Act of Congress as amended last year--special Federal registrars would intercede to make sure of fully constitutional suffrage...
Talese's individualism gained him a reputation as a prima donna at the New York Times, where he began as a copyboy in 1953 and left as a hot-shot feature writer twelve years later. His specialty was the out-of-the-way, the offbeat, the loser, the star that has fallen or faded. Bill Bonanno was a natural for Talese. But how does a journalist get close to the Mafia? Very slowly and very carefully. Research on the book took nearly seven years from the time in 1965 when Talese first introduced himself to Bonanno in a courtroom...
...internment without trial had not applied equally to extremists on the other side; none of the 232 still held were Protestant. Elaborate rumors of their mistreatment circulated through Northern Ireland's six counties, leading William Cardinal Conway, Catholic Primate of All Ireland, to charge that "there is prima-facie evidence that entirely innocent men are being subjected to humiliating and brutal treatment." This prompted the British Army to order an inquiry...