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...lives in a $75,000 San Fernando Valley house with a piano-shaped swimming pool. Men who work with him find, somewhat to their surprise, that they like him as a nice, friendly, unassuming fellow. From the women, there is scarcely any dissent. After his triumphal show at Madison Square Garden last week, the fans stormed his dressing room. He stayed till 2 a.m., signing autographs...
...spent the previous night on the royal yacht, and scurried home in the morning to change from his Trinity House uniform to a morning coat for the pierside ceremony. After the greetings, Elizabeth, Philip and their children entered an open landau drawn by six Windsor greys for the triumphal procession past more cheering crowds back to Buckingham. Hours later, the crowds were still pressing so thickly before the floodlit palace that the Queen was obliged to leave a state dinner to greet and reassure them all over again...
...Nerve. This was no small thing to say, for St. Mary's Paulist Choir is one of the best in the world. It was well known in 1914, when twelve-year-old Eugene O'Malley first thought of joining it. He had read about its triumphal tour of Europe two years before, when it sang before Pope Pius X.* For years young O'Malley had been practicing the piano and going to almost every concert and opera in Chicago. At his tryout he sang Gounod's Ave Maria straight through with such solemn precision that Father...
...chief of the Resistance. The Gestapo marked him for torture and death, frequently came close to catching him. But it was Georges Bidault who gave the signal for Paris' rise against the occupiers in 1944, and who was there to greet General Charles de Gaulle on his triumphal return with the Franco-American Liberation forces...
...last week, Italy's Premier Mario Scelba sent strict word ahead that no fuss was to be made over him. But the folks back home in Caltagirone, where Scelba's aged mother still lives, paid no attention. They greeted their fellow townsman outside the town with a triumphal fanfare of trumpets and drew him through the streets in a ceremonial coach, bright with caparisoned horses and liveried postillions. As the Premier stood on a balcony to address his old neighbors, a blaze of electric lights spelled out the message: "Viva Scelba...