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...used the Fifth Amendment when asked if he was a secret member of the Communist Party. Cameron joined up with tweedy, seedy Albert Kahn, a veteran Soviet apologist. Among the firm's recent products: The Testament of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Associated with Cameron and Kahn is Carl Aldo Marzani, wartime OSS employee, who served two years in prison for hiding his Communist Party affiliations in a federal loyalty test...
Suppressed Demands. The sentiments were those that Party Dogmatist Secchia is known to hold; the words were probably those of his male secretary and close confidant, Aldo Seniga. The letter itself was reportedly inspired by Bruno Fortichiari, one of the founders of Italian Communism, now 62 and out of favor with Togliatti's blue-suit Communists for his long insistence on militant tactics. Several days before the conference opened, Secretary Seniga suddenly disappeared. Apparently afraid that he might turn up somewhere with a damaging story, the Communists characteristically accused him of absconding with 8,000,000 lire and some...
Painters and glassblowers had worked side by side at the furnaces. Brittle creations sometimes exploded on cooling, requiring tedious remakes. Old Master Aldo Bon blew steadily for three hours on Picasso's Burlesco. Exhausted in the end, he gasped: "What a sweat! Even for Picasso I would not do another like this...
...SISTERS MATERASSI (316 pp.)-Aldo Palazzeschl-Doubleday...
...Italian Novelist Aldo Palazzeschi knew, and in The Sisters Materassi, first published in Italy 19 years ago, he handles the bewildered spinsters with a blend of irony and humor that is calculated to keep his readers smiling. It is a welcome summer change from the recent crop of grim, postwar Italian novels...