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Porgy is the first major role for Louisiana-born Donnie Ray Albert, 26. He is a find. As the crippled hero he acts on his knees better than most young operatic hopefuls do on their feet, and he has a booming bass-baritone voice. Wilma Shakesnider has just the right blend of vibrant lyricism and common-sense demeanor to make Serena an appropriately righteous foil to Bess. Larry Marshall's Sportin' Life could use a touch more evil but is admirable in his dandified elusiveness. The depth of this cast is suggested by the presence of the veteran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Return of Porgy | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Died. Attilio Piccioni, 83, anti-Fascist co-founder of Italy's Christian Democrat Party, who resigned as Foreign Minister in 1954 when his jazz-pianist son was falsely implicated in a scandal involving sex, narcotics and the death of a party girl, Wilma Montesi; in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1976 | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

ASWARM of 161 potential China pundits arrived at Kirkland House on July 4 to begin ten days of apprenticeship with Harvard's most celebrated Sinologist, John K. Fairbank, and his wife, Wilma, at the Alumni College...

Author: By Max Rudmann, | Title: From Nostalgia to Diploma: The Alumni College | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

...confined. That day may come, however, despite the fact that all three of the guards are women. Prison officials say that they "aren't making any concessions as to what these women might be called upon to do" in an emergency. All three-Joyce Zink at Folsom and Wilma Schneider and Bonni Briggs at San Quentin-were hired after the California Personnel Board ruled that women must be considered for guard jobs. Though the three are the first of their sex to serve as guards, they are not the first to hold "correctional" jobs in California's male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Male and Female | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...Harvard and other universities must justify their privileged positions in society, their claims to high service and moral leadership, by actively using their endowments in an attempt to reform the American corporate system as a whole. This means buying a few shares just to make trouble (becoming an institutional Wilma Soss). This means acting in concert for maximum leverage. This means initiating stockholder action, not waiting for others--because if the beneficiaries of free enquiry won't act, who will...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Profit Without Honor | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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