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...audience glittered, for San Francisco takes first nights with silk-and-sable seriousness. But the best show was onstage. The Devil (Italian Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni) was gusty enough to shake the chandeliers. Visiting Met Stars Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce (as Marguerite and Faust) brought down the house with their prison scene. Nonetheless, there was a sense of melancholy on both sides of the footlights: General Director Gaetano Merola, the man who founded the company 30 years ago and built it to second rank in the U.S. (after the Met), had died two weeks before the opening (TIME, Sept...
...Ruiz Cortines' life. That was the day that he became boss; the man who had always been in second place moved into first. As the red, green and white sash of the presidency was draped across his chest, observers noted that his hand moved gently across the silk and his deep-set brown eyes lit up. Then he stepped confidently to the rostrum and spoke words that soon wiped the big smile off the face of Miguel Alemán. "Government-protected monopolies must end," said the new President. "I will demand strict honesty from all. I will...
...great head bulging beneath a grey wig, his outsize body draped in silk, Primo Camera took Hollywood Starlet Audrey Dalton by the hand and rolled his eyes for a soulful photograph. Camera, 44, the Italian giant (6 ft. 6½ in., 280 Ibs.) who was promoted all the way up to the world's heavyweight championship in the 1930s, had turned his acting talents to the movies after a moneymaking postwar wrestling career, is currently performing (but not starring) in Casanova's Big Night and Prince Valiant. To make things complete, he and his Italian wife have just...
...Soon, nothing remained of 109 Kakh Street but memories of a regime which had stood Iran and the Western world on its ear for more than two years. But, even in his last hours of power, Mohammed Mossadegh cost the nation dear: 300 died that day. Dressed in silk pajamas, Mossadegh surrendered 24 hours later to General Zahedi, was temporarily imprisoned in the luxurious Teheran Officers' Club and then carted off to a common jail cell...
...under the nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...