Word: vittoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concert season, no group travels farther and gives more performances than the Trapp Family Singers (last season: 125 concerts from coast to coast). When summer comes, the Trapps retire to their 660-acre farm in the Green Mountains near Stowe, Vt. and let lovers of Bach, Palestrina and Vittoria come and sing with them...
...last week were opened by Countess di Frasso with a dinner and dance at the Whip Club, which steamed along until 7 in the morning. The guests, as one of them put it, were "not only the cream of Roman society, but the cream of the cream." There was Vittoria Caetani, Dowager Duchess of Sermoneta, ex-lady in waiting to the ex-Queen of Italy. Her latest book, Sparkle Distant Worlds, is quite sad: "Now we began hearing of the first horrors of war, Poland invaded . . . a British passenger steamer sunk off the Hebrides . . . My last footman was called...
Father Finn had qualms about his two-hour concert of classic sacred music (Palestrina, Vittoria, Brahms, Mendelssohn); he thought it might be "a little on the gay side." To rehearse the sisters he had to modify the hardy rehearsal technique he had developed during 40 years with boys' choirs (stretching the singers out on table and piano tops for breathing exercises): "Of course, in the case of the sisters that just isn't done. . . . [They] are dedicated to an unworldly life. No Delilah business, you know...
...crashed through an olive tree before he hit the ground, cracking a rib, wrenching a knee, skinning his knuckles. His tired old secondhand portable typewriter got to earth in a parachute bundle. Thompson found it, hid it behind a stone wall. But by the time the paratroops had taken Vittoria, someone had stolen his portable...
Bataan to Vittoria. I.N.S.'s ace, steady Clark Lee, who covered Bataan and the Solomons for A.P., went in with an amphibian task force. When the beachhead was made, he joined seven U.S. soldiers in two jeeps and entered Vittoria. They were somewhat premature. Two German armored cars surprised the Americans in a garage. Lee led his party out the back way. The armored cars caught up with them and killed a sergeant, but Lee and the rest finally made the U.S. lines...