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...readers of TIME'S 1956 cover story on Maria Meneghini Callas will remember (if not, see cut), the diva can sing like a bird and feud like a fishwife. Front pages ever since have attested to her tantrum power, and there have been moments when the sounds of her critics almost obscured the sound of her voice. But last week, in her first Metropolitan Opera appearance of the season, Callas the singer soared above Callas the shrew, and sang Traviata with an impassioned poignancy unmatched in years. See Music, Diva's Return...
...crude, vulgar and unbecoming display of a nasty temper." Thus wrote Florida's Supreme Court in 1953, scolding Circuit Judge Stanley Milledge for the way he had bawled out an attorney in his courtroom. In Miami last week, testy, white-haired Judge Milledge, 61, flew into another tantrum and onto Florida front pages in probably the least judicial photograph of a judge yet to reach print...
...small boy. the little Prince deeply resented the background that made him different from other people. Once when an-old friend of the family introduced him to a stranger as "Prince Philip, the grandson of a King of Greece," the proud four-year-old stormed off in a tantrum. "No!" he shouted to the world at large. "I'm Philip - just Philip, that...
Temporary Tantrum. Harry Ashmore believes that history will look back on the Little Rock crisis as a "temporary temper tantrum," a time of transition in which "the best of us have been defeated and the worst of us have taken over-for the moment." Should this prophecy, like the one of six years ago, also come true, Editor Ashmore will be able to count himself among the men of tenacity and purpose who made...
...savoir faire," by the more important escape of her father's cows from the pasture. Miss Douglas is aware of the effect of the city on the farm girl, making them demand such needless conveniences as inside plumbing and all, but she fails to make plausible the severe temper tantrum of her heroine about such matters. The girl had previously appeared as a "Good morning, Mummy," type. Although Miss Douglas has attempted less than her fellow contributors, she has achieved much more...