Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never forgot. They sang "Fair Harvard" to me. Some of them will never sing any more. But I'll remember...
...Hotel Washington's basement ballroom (first stop) Eleanor Roosevelt strode to a thronelike seat on a small dais. Energetically, the orchestra played the national anthem. That over, the roped-off audience fell into a stiff, embarrassed silence. Eleanor Roosevelt tried to loosen things by suggesting "we all sing something together." But that was not on the program; no one knew what cue to take. Before a song could be organized, the First Lady was away...
...range its contralto depths offered no serious hurdles. She is not content to rest on last week's laurels. After the performance, as she held court in her dressing room, somebody recalled that she had made her Metropolitan debut as athletic Brünnhilde. Said she: "I shall sing that again before very long...
Seventh child of an Italian carpenter, Basso Pinza was born in Rome in 1892. His only youthful distinction was as a middling bicycle racer. The turning point came when he happened to sing O Sole Mio in the shower after taking second place in a local race. The man in the next shower told him he had a voice. Pinza was soon on his way to Bologna, where home-town folks chipped in to help him through the Rossini Conservatory. He scarcely had time for a jerkwater debut, when he was mustered into World...
...over, Pinza spent a brief spell as brakeman on a railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...