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Born Jane Angelovich of Yugoslavian-descended parents, Soprano D'Angelo made her singing debut when she was three on a radio child-talent show, spent the next several years studying tap dancing and piano. By the time she was 17, she realized that she was a better singer than tap dancer, in 1950 embarked for Italy to study, made her operatic debut (as Gilda) at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome when she was 24. On that occasion she had with her the good-luck charm she had at the Met last week-a toy cat whose beneficent influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tap Dancing to the Met | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

Married. Yul Brynner, 39, shaved-pate, Vladivostok-born Hollywood star; and Doris Kleiner, 32, Yugoslavian-born brunette, now a Paris fashionhouse director; ic for the second time, she for the first; n Mexico City, five days after his divorce from First Wife Virginia Gilmore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...span of 350 years is a lot to pack into a novel. Yugoslavian Author Andric does it in a splendidly evocative story of his home town, for centuries a meeting place of many races and a target for a variety of conquerors. There is no plot except the rhythm of war and peace, life and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: The YEAR'S BEST | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...chartered plane go 65,000 copies daily-80,000 when the tourists swarm. In the last five years as tourism has grown, the Trib has boosted subscriptions 90% and newsstand sales 34%, is so much a European fixture that it appears regularly behind the Iron Curtain, on Polish and Yugoslavian kiosks. It charges almost the same ad rates as Paris' Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), yet steamship companies and resorts are eager to do business with the Trib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Trib of the Other Side | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...speaker, Stanko Grozdanich, legal counsel of the Yugoslavian trade unions; stressed Yugoslavia's wish to preserve its independence and to maintain relations with all countries. "As civilization grows, countries actually become increasingly dependent upon one another," he noted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forum Reveals Polish Poverty, Housing Dearth | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

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