Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Callas is dynamic, explosive and colorful but . . . she can't sing very well...
...Sing Sing. A few days later Djilas was seized in his Belgrade home and sent to the prison Belgraders call Sing Sing. Early one morning last week granite-hard Djilas, flanked by two tall guards, was brought into Belgrade's Circuit Court, an austerely timbered room resembling a southern Baptist Church, where a panel of three judges sat under a large portrait of Tito. Smiling confidently, and nodding to his wife in the public benches, Djilas listened to the prosecutor read the indictment: "Milovan Djilas ... a Montenegrin . . ." Djilas interrupted: "Not a Montenegrin, a Yugoslav." Then the court was cleared...
...hours. At its end the public was readmitted to see a weary, unsmiling Djilas sentenced to three years of hard labor for having written articles "purposely to help certain hostile foreign elements [to] intervene in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia." Djilas' last words, before being led back to Sing Sing: "I am a Social Democrat who has nothing in common with Communism...
Christmas Sing with Bing (Mon. 9p.m., CBS). Second annual hourlong show with Bing Crosby and choral groups...
...Sordello tells it, Callas grabbed him and whispered loudly: "Don't hold that note!" He held on for dear life. In the in termission. Callas told him: "You will never sing with me again." Then she canceled her next performance of Lucia, to put pressure on Manager Rudolf Bing to fire Sordello-or so Sordello says. Her failure to appear in Lucia caused a near riot of disappointed ticket holders who had to be quieted by the cops. And two days later, Sordello got a registered letter from Manager Bing dismissing him from the Met. "Miss Callas," Sordello summed...