Word: tomba
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...Afro look" is the specialty of Yahne Sangare, who comes by it naturally: she is the daughter of the Liberian ambassador to Paris. By any modeling standards, Haitian-born Jany Tomba was an instant success; she started work only last January, has since posed for Simplicity Patterns, the J. C. Penney catalogue and a Seventeen...
...Gentleman." "You Communists!" retorted Christian Democratic Labor Leader Umberto Tomba. "You find your recruits only among criminals and loose women!" For the moment the Chamber sat in stunned silence. The silence was broken by the hurried clatter of feet; a Communist flying squad dashed toward the Christian Democratic benches...
...commanded by blue-jawed Walter Audisio, Communist executioner of Benito Mussolini (TIME, April 7, 1947). Audisio rushed up to Tomba, cried: "If you are a gentleman, come outside in the garden." Tomba declined, but the fracas became a free-for-all; even a Communist woman deputy, Laura Diaz (known to her admirers as the "Joan Crawford of Parliament"), joined in, whacking at bearded Christian Democrats. Contestants ripped out stenographers' desks, used them as clubs. Three deputies had to be treated for injuries. It was the worst riot in the loo-year history of Parliament...
...well done, particularly the stirring ending where the "Marseillaise" is introduced. The Volga Boat-song, taken at a rather fast tempo, was given an authoritative interpretation. Chaliapin answered the thunderous applause at the end of each group with several encores. Perhaps the best of these was the "Inquesta tomba" of Beethoven. Both of the assisting artists, a planist and a 'cellist, served as a good contrast for the impeecable basso of the Metropolitan...