Word: sol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Linda's mother returned, heard the maid's story and anxiously opened the letter. Clumsily lettered, it read: "Your child has-been kidnaped . . . The amount is $20,000. cash or negotiable bonds. Put same in envelope on top of your Sol y Lomas gate tonight if you can. If not until tomorrow night put a red rag as sign ... If not at all-your kid will die of cold and hunger. New Mexico is an easy place to lose a body. Do not talk about this to police, FBI or friends. Any effort to interfere with our messenger...
Word of a sensational new Spanish singer first began to drift across the Atlantic early last year; a 25-year-old raven-haired, camelia-skinned lyric soprano named Victoria de los Angeles, singing in opera and recital, had taken London and Paris by storm. Sharp-eared U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok investigated and joined the cheering section. Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sailed for Europe last spring rather certain that his roster of leading sopranos was complete, changed his mind when he heard her. By last week, Soprano de los Angeles' first U.S. concert performance was just about...
Lowell Sachnoff's passes were responsible for five of the Leverett scores. Si Lippman, George Hargreaves, Sol Skoler and Julie Garelick were the receiving ends. The other touchdown was made when Dick Reynolds intercepted a Dudley pass by Eddy Foyenes...
Since the war, Vienna's State Opera has been the touring company of Europe. The U.S. has heard and applauded some of its stars, e.g., Soprano Ljuba Welitch and Baritone Paul Schoeffler. Now the company would like to show the U.S. all of its wares. Veteran Importer Sol Hurok is negotiating, but it looks as if the U.S. might still have to wait a while. Neither Hurok nor the Austrians are yet prepared to ship over an orchestra (the Vienna Philharmonic) of 113, a chorus of 106, singing principals, sets and chief stage hands...
...company was still in doubt about its second U.S. reception, there were other, more substantial assurances. Impresario Sol Hurok's office predicted a steady sellout through the company's three-week stay at the Met. After Manhattan, Sadler's Wells will set out on a four-month, 31-stop continental tour which has already piled up the biggest advance sale (more than $1,000,000) in American dance history...