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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a year Soprano Pons made her debut, in 1928, in the provincial French opera of Mulhouse, Alsace. Her voice was heard in a few more second-string opera houses-Cannes, Vichy, La Baule-and, still unknown in France, pricked the ears of a couple of tourists. They were Maria Gay, an oldtime opera singer, and her husband Giovanni Zenatello. They took up the innocent Lily, promised her an audition at the Metropolitan. Within a few months Lily Pons was taking 16 Metropolitan curtain calls in Lucia, 30 a few nights later in Rigoletto. Later the Zenatellos sued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: TRILLER IN UNIFORM | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...secretary of the World Council of Churches, says, "This is one of the most subtle and terrible persecutions in all history." But the blood of martyrs is the seed of faith. Though the Nazis have jailed over 10,000 pastors, priests and monks for long or short periods, an unknown number have been beaten to death, the churches stand far higher in German esteem today than they did in the easygoing '20s. Church congregations have grown remarkably. Sales of the Bible have shot up from 830,000 copies in 1933 to 1,225,000 in 1939, topping Mein Kampf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: German Martyrs | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...related; but greater care in administrative coordination could well reduce the abundant duplication of material in Ec 41, 43, and 45, without destroying the unity of each. Even more noxious is the overlapping of lectures within one and the same course, which is quite current in 41, and not unknown in 45 and 61. Closer collaboration between the different lecturers in each course would readily cure the evil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EC DEPARTMENT | 12/17/1940 | See Source »

...York box salesman, a Chicago doctor, a United Air Lines pilot, a Texas polo player, 46 other assorted U. S. citizens gathered in Los Angeles last week to ply their common sport. They were all "spindizzies." Three years ago spindizzy was unknown to the U. S. vernacular. Then Los Angeles' Dooling brothers (Tom, Russ and Hank), who were model-airplane buffs, began to experiment with model autos. They built a miniature automobile, not much larger than a milk bottle, to fit over one of their tiny, ¼-h.p. internal-combustion airplane engines, tied one end of a piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spindizzies | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...newcomers to the team are Leo Ackerman and Johnny Sosman, who take over in the 165 and 175 pound slots. Ackerman, last year's Yardling captain, should fill the position adequately. While Sosman is still very much of an unknown quantity. This has been his first week of college wrestling, and he appears good for a beginner...

Author: By Evan Calkins, | Title: GRAPPLERS TO FACE RUGGED TUFTS TEAM IN MATCH TODAY | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

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