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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midnight Polish. The war over, Maria returned to New York. The Met offered her the role of Madame Butterfly, but she did not dare try it at her weight. A chance to sing in Chicago blew up when the company went broke. For two years she remained in New York, studying, practicing and eating, but never singing in public. Discouraged and despondent, she sailed for Italy, where she got a job in Verona (at $63 a performance), an audition but no job at La Scala (the director told her that she had lots of faults...
After her success at La Scala, Callas began to lose weight. In three years she dropped from 202 Ibs. to a sleek 135 Ibs. "She got what she wanted, so she stopped overeating," explained an interested doctor. In Milan she began to live the life of the prima donna and to look the part. Milan fondly encouraged her, wined and dined her whenever possible. Her life took on a sybaritic pattern. In the morning she usually sang at the piano on a glassed-in terrace outside her bedroom, polishing current roles. Afternoons, she visited her dressmaker or her beautician, taking...
...Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, which was dusted with radioactive fallout (1954) after a U.S. H-bomb test in the Marshall Islands, and his wife Setsuko Ikeda, 23: a son, described as healthy and normal, the first child born to any of the 22 survivors (one crewman died). Weight...
Born. To Debbie Reynolds, 24, teen-ageing cinemactress (The Catered Affair), and Eddie Fisher, 28, curly-headed jukebox nightingale (7 Believe): a daughter, their first child; in Burbank, Calif. Weight...
Born. To Luis Anastasio Somoza de Bayle, 33, President of Nicaragua since the assassination of his father. Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, last month, and Isabel Urcuyo de Somoza: a fifth son, sixth child; in Managua, Nicaragua. Name: Heraldo. Weight...