Word: margherita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stop & Go. In Turin, Italy, when Margherita Carosso returned home and opened her bedroom closet, she found a burglar who explained soothingly, "Don't be alarmed, I made a mistake," then scooted...
...publisher's warehouse in Milan last fall, Kalamazoo-born Conductor Thomas Schippers discovered an opera score dedicated to Queen Margherita * of Italy and tied up in purple string. In Spoleto last week, at the opening of Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds, he unwrapped his find before a capacity audience. Italian critics promptly hailed the long-forgotten work as one of the finest creations of Composer Gaetano Donizetti...
...Margherita of Savoy (1851-1926), strongwilled, mandolin-playing wife of Umberto I, mother of Victor Emmanuel...
...Rome last month with an entourage of about 90 assorted Yemeni, including several Cabinet ministers, scimitar-bearing guards, three of his Queens, 23 concubines (who, according to the Italian Foreign Office, are not genuine harem types, "just slaves"). The Imam spends his time in Rome's Villa Margherita clinic, where a dozen doctors, both Yemeni and Roman, diligently labor to resharpen the Sword of Islam. Meanwhile, the women lounge around a beach hotel near Rome, relishing television, ice cream and high-calorific Italian cooking. They are protected from prying newsmen by dagger-brandishing Yemeni guards on the premises, jittery...
Last week Professor Margherita Guarducci, 56, a slender, youthful-looking spinster who is professor of Greek epigraphy at Rome University, announced that she had found in these graffiti strong new evidence that St. Peter had been buried where tradition has placed...