Word: snows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There aren't many veterans of the blizzard of '88 still in College, and they don't write letters to newspapers asking about Santa Claus; some of them won't even, admit that this was a hell of a snow fall. One grisly octogenarian had remarked on a certain Sunday, "They don't make storms like that any more," but on December 26 he happened to hold up a damp finger in the wind, shattering all his illusions and allusions to the past...
Fight for a Capital. In the rugged, snow-covered uplands of northwestern Greece, the Vafiades rebels attacked with 23 battalions, according to government estimates. They seemed to have chosen the government-held town of Konitsa, six miles from the Albanian border, for the capital of their new state. The government garrison in Konitsa was completely encircled while hundreds of shells crashed into the town from the guerrillas' 66-mm. guns. Wounded several times, Konstantin Dovas, the Konitsa garrison commander, directed the defense from a hospital bed. At week's end government reinforcements were pouring up the road from...
Tenor James Melton, refusing to be licked by the Big Snow (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), shoveled a clearing on his Westport (Conn.) farm and helicopter-hopped to work at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...matinee of Broadway's Happy Birthday, starring Helen Hayes, the snow got too much for a skylight. Suddenly onstage it snowed snow and broken glass (all over Miss Hayes), and that was the end of the matinee...
Last week a capacity crowd sludged through the snow to hear Tagliavini as Cavaradossi and his wife in the title role of Tosca. It was opera, full-flavored Italian style. Pia, revealing dramatic skill, a tender middle voice, and disturbingly razorish top range, was roundly applauded even in arias where critics found her wanting. Tagliavini was in top form. Between them, husband & wife managed to carry off a production that was closer to first rate than the Met usually achieves these lackluster days...