Word: visas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks before its opener last fall, the Metropolitan Opera found itself in a jam. Boris Christoff, the Bulgarian basso who was scheduled to sing King Philip in the opening-night Don Carlo, had been turned down for a visa. Met Manager Rudolf Bing had to gamble, and gamble fast. He staked his show on a 28-year-old singer named Cesare Siepi, who was almost unknown outside Italy. Handsome young Basso Siepi has turned out to be one of the best bets any opera manager ever made...
Emmanuel, who was very well received at last summer's Poetry Conference, attracted wide attention in the fall of 1949 when the State Department accused him of Communist leanings and denied him a visa as a visiting lecturer at Wellesley. Ransom, editor of the Kenyon Review, has just published a new book of poems...
...merely been a civilian employee of the Army, and could expect none of the citizenship favors bestowed on aliens who serve as U.S. soldiers. He stayed in shattered Manila three more years, spending his back pay from the Government on medical treatment. Finally, in 1949, he got a visa to the U.S. He was shipwrecked off Okinawa; by the time he got to San Francisco, the TB had flared up again...
Gatica, who was already in disfavor with the consulate, got hurry-up orders, and at week's end was back in Argentina. Brión was granted a few weeks' leeway, got an ordinary visitor's visa, and planned to try one more fight before going home...
...Helsinki's Malmi Airport, Mrs. Pontecorvo looked haggard and distraught. Her husband seemed quite normal. But his passport was not in order; he had no Finnish visa, so the authorities politely told him he must surrender it for correction. He could pick it up in three days at the Ministry of Interior's Bureau for Foreigners...