Word: bonaventura
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Sara Delano Roosevelt, 22, granddaughter of F.D.R., daughter of Jimmy, and Anthony di Bonaventura, 24, concert pianist: a son; in Washington, B.C. Weight...
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8 (Anthony di Bonaventura; #&134; Classic Editions). First LP of a work composed during the war, when Prokofiev was successfully fusing his modernist enthusiasm with his genuine romantic tenderness. It is consistently attractive and warmhearted, sometimes teeters on the edge of sentimentality. Performance: good, if on the chilly side...
Married. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 21, socialite millionheiress granddaughter of the late F.D.R.; and Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, pianist son of an immigrant Manhattan barber; in a small church ceremony on New York's lower East Side (see NEWS IN PICTURES...
...Bonaventura Pinggera, 57, is a thin, sad-faced Swiss-Italian who became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. in 1942. For ten years he had been a municipal employee in New York City. Then, last December, he admitted he had been a member of the Communist Party from 1936 until 1939. He was expelled, he said, when he denounced the Nazi-Soviet pact. The Municipal Civil Service Commission fired him. Last week New York State Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer concluded that "it is a bit difficult to visualize how [Pinggera] in his official capacity can give...
...wife of Financier John Hay ("Jock&") Whitney. The engagement announcement broke the news that Whitney, with the consent of Jimmie Roosevelt, had legally adopted Sara in 1949 to put her in line for the family fortune (reportedly around $50 million). The groom-to-be is Concert Pianist Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, whom Sara met in Philadelphia two years ago while he was a music student at Curtis Institute."Her millions don't impress me," he told reporters. Papa and Mama di Bonaventura, who had already entertained the Whitneys at a lasagna dinner in their East 17th Street flat, reported...