Word: traubel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich lower range, found the field so overcrowded that even her widely recognized abilities were not taking her to the top. "I was just a talented youngster compared with the great divas of the time," she says. "I sang the second Elsa to Flagstad, the second Sieglinde to Traubel, and the second everything to Milanov...
...protect the prestige of the Met name, Bing dropped Soprano Helen Traubel for "singing in smoky nightclubs" and Baritone Robert Merrill for taking leave to make a class-C movie, Aaron Slick from Punkin Crik (Merrill was reinstated a year later after making a public apology: "I have learned my lesson"). That lesson was clear: the wiry Mr. Bing was no man to tangle with. One Met dowager, who like most of the oldtimers was eying the new manager with suspicion, had to learn the hard way. "From what I hear," she airily informed him one night...
...Volpe had to go to get a man for every office suggests just that. It is not at all obvious that Republican strength rests on more than the party's vigorous personalities or the opposition's week candidates. There was virtually no competition for two state wide-offices (Raymond Traubel, the endorsee for Secretary of State, was drafted from the governor's State House staff, and like Fernandes, his candidacy was announced less than 72 hours before the convention), and for a third, there was only a belated struggle. That fight did not develop until the Democrats nominated Joseph McGuire...
...complex designed to offer something for everybody, summer or winter. Besides such standard accouterments as a lake for waterskiing, swimming pools, a 36-hole golf course, ski slopes, riding and hiking trails, it has an ice palace, a stadium, a 2,400-seat theater where such stars as Helen Traubel and Maurice Chevalier entertain nightly, and even a zoo. It also has a variety of dining rooms and cocktail lounges, including an authentic 18th century English pub that was imported piecemeal and reassembled. Originally laid out near the turn of the century by a German count who envisioned...
...keep doing Broadway musicals forever, though. There's a chance I may do a movie. What I'd really like to do is get sufficient preparation to do concert singing and maybe opera." So Gil may perhaps wind up having followed the reverse path of stars like Pinza and Traubel...