Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Senate summoned Rojas to appear and defend himself. In answer, Rojas issued a defiant communique: "I cannot recognize this farce, conceived in hate, vengeance and vain haughtiness." As the hour of his appointment with the Senate passed, a few followers in the town house tried to convince Rojas that the glorious days of power would return. "Mi general," shouted one, "the people are with you." Rojas smiled, nodded and hugged himself: "I am enveloped in the constitution...
What trapped the men was a "bump," a hazard peculiar to Nova Scotia soft coal mines, in which excavated seams compress with near-explosive force, sending up clouds of gas. Coming at 8:05 p.m., the rumbling shock tumbled dishes all over town. At the colliery, the miners' wives looked at the tagboard and waited. Only a few sobbed. Within an hour volunteer rescuers arrived, each toting 45 Ibs. of special oxygen equipment, and started down the 13,800-ft. shaft. Eighty-one survivors were brought up, their faces blank with shock. But the faces of the others were...
...child prodigy," Tebaldi once said, in a dimpled dig at the competition. "I was born with very normal cries-different from one of my celebrated colleagues, whose very first cries were musical and admirable." Tebaldi's first raucously normal cries sounded 36 years ago, in the fishing town of Pesaro on Italy's Adriatic coast. Renata's father, Teobaldo Tebaldi, was a theater-orchestra cellist of dashing good looks. His wife, Giuseppina, six years older than he and a former volunteer nurse, was an iron-willed woman. When Renata was only three months old, Teobaldo deserted...
During the months just before and after the end of World War II, Tebaldi and her mother shuttled from one small town to another. During that period, Tebaldi made her operatic debut (as Helen of Troy in Boito's Mefistofele) in Rovigo; on the way there, fighter planes strafed her train. After Toscanini hired her for the Scala opening in 1946, she smoothly embarked on the international operatic circuit. In her rise to the top she has experienced only one real failure-a performance of Traviata at La Scala in 1951 in which her voice broke twice on high...
...Spots. Old jazz fans can remember when Dorothy was known merely for her music, not for her mugging. That was 16 years ago when she started swinging the classics for Chicago, her home town. Still, the roots of the clown were there. Even when she was an eight-year-old, baseball-playing tomboy in the South Side black belt, her piano teachers could not wipe off her unconscious grimaces. But for a long while she managed to hold the rest of her contortions in check. An agent got her a job in a Dearborn Street gin mill-the kind...