Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Truman, who tried out on the radio five months ago, announced that she would sing in public for the first time next week. Scene of her debut: the Hollywood Bowl (capacity...
...ordinary evening at the Arab-owned, Jewish-operated Café Hawaii on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Jewish couples crowded the dance floor. Alongside, the River Yarkon flowed quietly between its eucalyptus-lined banks. "Jeep," a comedian, stepped to the microphone, opened his mouth to sing, and a grenade exploded among the dancers. From darkness surrounding the brightly lighted open-air café came the flash and rattle of automatic rifle fire. Four Jews were killed, twelve wounded. Survivors said the attackers were Arabs. If so, the raid was the first serious attack by Arabs on Jews since...
...ruling class. As late as 1930, a League of Nations commission discovered that Liberia's Vice President Allen Nathaniel Yancy himself was head of a ring of slavers who regularly sold native laborers to Fernando Po in Spanish Guinea. The women of Liberia's Wedabo tribe still sing...
...only paid festival performer among the chorus of 69 and the orchestra of 43 was Conductor Gastone Usigli. The chorus, mostly townspeople, had rehearsed weekly since September, but not until just before the festival did Usigli gather, orchestra and chorus together for an exhausting rehearsal. Says he: "Community singing is fine, but it is best for Christmas carols. A local chorus can do Gilbert & Sullivan, but the B Minor Mass-ah! that is another matter. I have to extract something from these young people that they never knew they had. Sometimes I think that if they make love...
...taken eight years of costly singing lessons to develop the Damone style. "There's been times the family went without spaghetti to pay for them," says Vic. The family began to get its spaghetti back in 1945, when Lou Capone,* a 34-year-old Brooklyn olive oil importer, heard Vic sing. Capone promptly left his business (olive oil was hard to come by, anyway, during the war) and gave his full time to managing Vic. He spent $3,000 just to make Vic's audition records...