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...outside world was not afraid to speak. All over Italy, Catholic Action organized protest meetings; in Milan, 5,000 Catholics fought bitterly with Communist strong-arm squads which tried to break up their meeting. In Italy's National Assembly, Interior Minister Mario Scelba announced that the government had sent a message of "fraternal solidarity" to Hungarian Catholics. Communist deputies screamed defiance...
Playwright Thornton Wilder, working & playing about Europe since September, arrived in Milan to help in the Italian production of an old play (The Skin of Our Teeth) before starting work...
...Martin J. Monti, a 27-year-old former Air Force lieutenant, pleaded guilty of treason during World War II. In 1944 Monti stole a P-38 fighter in Naples, flew to German-held Milan, surrendered and agreed to make radio broadcasts for the enemy. A federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced him to 25 years in prison...
...many a year he had unearthed a new Italian conductor-one who "conducts like I do," which means with precision, drama, warmth and love. He had not known about Guido when he arrived in Italy for a visit last spring. He had slipped quietly in on a rehearsal in Milan, where his friend Violinist Nathan Milstein was rehearsing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the La Scala orchestra, and had been so impressed with the work of its Conductor Cantelli that he came back for a second time, then for the concert. Toscanini decided that Guido had been born to conduct...
...born to it, Guido certainly got an early start. His bandmaster father let him conduct his band from a table top at the age of five. At 20, when he had graduated from Milan's Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, he conducted at the Teatro Coccia at Novara-a theater that the young Toscanini had inaugurated...