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...There, in the fishing village of Trappeto, with his own meager savings and a few small contributions from outside, he put up a collection of shacks and shanties which he called "the Hamlet of God" to provide shelter for the area's neediest cases. He married an impoverished widow with five children; together they adopted five more childen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Dolci v. Far Niente | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...Mother's Son." In his exterior, Juscelino Kubitschek resembles his handsome father, João Oliveira, a gay, clever but improvident amateur poet, who died when Juscelino was two. Inside, he is far more like his prim, pious mother Júlia. Stern Widow Júlia reared the boy and his older sister Maria on a schoolteacher's salary. Harried and embittered by poverty, Júlia drilled into her son a fierce will to succeed. Now a hale-looking 83, she still calls him by his boyhood nickname...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Man from Minas | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

First came a spell with a Gilbert & Sullivan road show. Then she starred in a coast-to-coast Merry Widow company, moved on to a grand opera touring company (63 Micaëlas in Carmen, 45 Violettas in Traviata), where, before long, she had to learn how to intercept passes from forward tenors without missing a note. For a while, she learned a role a month for TV's Opera Cameos, finally hit the big time two seasons ago when she sang Donna Elvira in the San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni ("the most exquisitely sung aria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singer to Watch | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...Columbia LP, Lotte Lenya sings Berlin Theatre Songs by Kurt Weill; the composer's widow does Mack the Knife and other Threepenny ditties as they should be done. Fiftyish, and after two years of starring in a successful New York revival of the work, Lotte Lenya still sings with a smoky, strangely appealing quality that always suggests the waif beneath the cynic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Odyssey of Mack the Knife | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Died. Maria Clopton Jackson, 93, widow of C. S. ("Sam") Jackson, doughty founder (in 1902) of Portland's independent Oregon Journal (circ. 182,257), longtime board chairman of the Journal Publishing Co.; in Portland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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