Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about time that the Republican Party thoughtfully considered your front-page caption. Why don't they change the tone and tenor of their Presidential campaign and give us something constructive for once? Those of us who loyally support Mr. Roosevelt and those of you who are unalterably opposed to him recognize that there have been mistakes made and-whether you admit it or not, Mr. Dewey does-tremendous advances have been made in our social planning and economic development. We know how old Mr. Roosevelt is, we know who his advisers are, we are fully conscious of everything...
...director, Frank Callan Norris, a TIME Inc. staffman ever since he left Princeton in 1929, managing editor of the radio March of Time since 1941. A redhaired, wry, witty compendium of universal fact and theory, Norris is also a not able Aberdeen Angus cattle raiser and barbershop tenor. Co-author of The World and America is Folklorist Carl Carmer (Listen for a Lonesome Drum), a specialist in local American history ever since he left a northern professorship to teach at the University of Alabama...
...most popular Irish tenor in the U.S. since the great days of John McCormack was in full career last week. Handsome, high-spirited Morton Downey, 43, has been singing before the U.S. public so long that he is widely taken for granted. But not by the millions of women who eagerly listen to the Blue Network five afternoons a week (Mon.-Fri., 3 p.m., E.W.T.). And not by his sponsor, Coca-Cola, which has just given him a four-and-a-half year contract and a $1,000 raise (to $4,000 a week...
...Tamed Tenor Beniamino Gigli, whose friendliness toward the Nazis caused U.S. Army officials to bar him from singing at a United Nations concert in Rome (TIME, July...
Beniamino Gigli, huffy-puffy, onetime Metropolitan Opera tenor repatriated in 1939, was invited by the British to sing at a concert in Rome, then disinvited at the last moment by U.S. Army officials, after his fellow Romans sounded off about his late pro-fascism (TIME, June 19). Gigli, whose announced selection for the concert was I Close My Eyes to Dream, declared himself an artist, not a politician, said: "I'll sing for the British and Americans . . . but I'll never sing for the Italians again...