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Simultaneously down with flu at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital were the Sage of Emporia & wife, the William Allen Whites. They hoped to leave soon for Santa Fe and Estes Park, Cob. to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at the scenes of their honeymoon. Said the Sage, now 75: "The last time, I was a 25-year-old editorial writer. . . . Sallie was a 22-year-old schoolteacher. We had a railroad pass from the paper." Said Mrs. White, commenting on the separate rooms which kept them from nurse-forbidden talk: "You might think we'd be talked out after...
Ezio was playing Boris for the 50th time. For him, every groan and stagger of Modest Moussorgsky's doom-shadowed hero was an old story. But Pinza as usual sang and acted every line with half-crazed intensity, made the part so live that his audience could almost smell the sweat of medieval Moscow. Next day critics tried hard to find a new way of saying that Ezio Pinza is the world's greatest operatic basso, the greatest singing actor of his generation...
...occasion of his 50th birthday, fat Franco last week had little to be happy about. His Falangist "Voice of Spain" radio has kept up violent attacks against the United Nations. The newspaper Ya (Now) editorialized: "By clear designation of God, Franco represents and directs the Spanish nation in the most difficult period of her history." From his other onetime ally, Adolf Hitler, Franco received a birthday present of a new German-made automobile. It may have been a reminder of other gifts-of men and war materiel-sent by Hitler and Mussolini when Franco needed their help to defeat...
...Portland (Ore.) Art Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary last week, invited Portland's upper crust to a preview of birthday exhibits. A reporter for Portland's Oregon Journal was there, accompanied by a photographer who popped flash bulbs until he was told he was "annoying the guests," was asked to leave...
...every new tank as they arrived. His angular, inquisitive figure was by now familiar to all the units about to attack: the sist Highlanders, veterans of France, now about to get their first action against the Germans since their stand on the Somme in 1940, the desert-tried 50th Division, Aussies, South Africans, Fighting French, Greeks...