Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trance? Gianella's parents, Building Engineer Lido de Marco and his wife, an ex-opera singer, got their first clue to the youngster's phenomenal talent when she was four. They came home one night to find Gianella standing up in bed, her eyes shut, conducting an imaginary orchestra to the strains of Beethoven's Fifth on a neighbor's radio. Papa de Marco, shrugged the incident off as "some sort of trance...
Officials in Massachusetts hall are removing the mirrors in preparation for the arrival of Harvard's next president, pictured on the right. The new Yorker's R. Taylor yesterday revealed that this youngster will be Conant's successor. Taylor s the illustrator of "Fractured French" and the author of the cartoon book, "The Better Taylors...
...also a vice-chairman of Georgia's Republican State Central Committee. Her name was concocted from those of her maternal grandmother (Mattie Wilda), and she sees no reason to change it: "People usually remember it." She sang solos in Atlanta's First Congregational Church as a youngster, went from that to music studies at Atlanta's Spelman College. In 1946 she shipped off to Manhattan to study voice, but prudently supplemented her musical training with teaching credits, took a master's degree in Spanish at Columbia's Teachers College...
When he was a 13-year-old schoolboy, a tousled Greek youngster named Nicolas Hadgikyriaco saw his first "modern" painting-a tortured Matisse street scene-in a Paris gallery. "I was terribly shocked," he remembers. "I was as shocked as if I saw a woman walking on the Boulevard de la Madeleine stripped naked." Young Nicolas soon got over his astonishment at the new art. He began to paint himself, grew up to become a pupil of the modern school and, eventually, Greece's best living painter. Last week he was in London giving the city its first good...
Except for his spaniel's head with its "long, flapping ears [and] wide, gaping jaws," little Edmond was a normal child. In moments of optimism, his father, M. Du Chaillu, saw no reason why Edmond should not take up law, for instance. But even as a youngster, Edmond developed some disturbing manners-such as fetching the daily paper between his teeth. He had, it seemed, "the soul of a man," but he was dogged by what his father called "canine predestination...