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...threats came from minor officials, but their fine Italian handwriting looked suspiciously like that of A.F. of M.'s big boss, James C. (for Caesar) Petrillo. Ever since he became tsar of U.S. musicians, ex-Trumpeter Petrillo has considered the patrician Boston Symphony one of the chief thorns in his sensitive side. Union pressure has kept the Boston orchestra from broadcasting since 1939. Two years ago Petrillo forced RCA-Victor to stop recording the Boston Symphony, then exulted: "They're through...
Meanwhile James Caesar Petrillo had another battle on his hands. Next fortnight the Government hopes to slap an injunction on Petrillo to end his boycott against recordings. On hand to push the Government's case will be Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. So far Trust-Buster Arnold has had no great success in his brushes with organized labor. But this time he has popular opinion behind him. A Gallup Poll question, "Do you approve or disapprove of the Government taking legal action to stop Petrillo?" turned up a 73% chorus of ayes...
...that were all, The Seed Beneath the Snow would be an ordinary piece of democratic propaganda. But it has indestructible meaning and grandeur, because Silone dramatizes, chiefly within one village, the conflict of two irreconcilable worlds. One is the world of Caesar: petty officials, petty sycophants, sentimental housewives, craven husbands, tame-cat priests, small landowners who "would boil the Sacred Ribs of Jesus in the tears of Our Lady of Sorrows if they could make a broth of them"-in short, the dull, timid, heartless, ambitious mass of whom, in Silone's opinion, life is chiefly made. The other...
...Caesar's World is the world where cynicism is the last refuge of integrity. There the village druggist, to gain prestige, wedges himself between two fourth-rate party hacks and tries to muscle into the gossip. There, an old horse, forever paretically nodding yes-yes-yes, is named Plebiscite. There, the Fascist party's local orator, Don Coriolano, speaks for that "moderate" faith in God which priests "widely recommend...
Died. Guglielmo Ferrero, 71, famed Italian historian (The Grandeur & Decadence of Rome, The Reconstruction of Europe), veteran antiFascist; in Geneva, Switzerland. Admired by Teddy Roosevelt (for his pointed parallels between the politics of Caesar and Tammany), Ferrero launched his world reputation with a U.S. lecture tour in 1908. Under Mussolini, his gift for such parallelisms led first to his "quarantine" in Italy, then his expulsion...