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...Toast of the Town. The NBC network pioneered in producing such TV-sized operas as Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors and Martinu's The Marriage. In Manhattan, independent station WPIX has been telecasting Opera Cameos for the past three years, complete with a sponsor (Progresso Brand Quality Foods) and a ready-made audience of opera lovers...
Died. Generoso Pope, 59, Italian-born New Yorker who rose from $3-a-week water boy to Tammany Hall big shot and publisher of one of the country's largest foreign-language newspapers, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (circ. 78,000) ; after long illness; in Manhattan. With profits from his $8,847,988 Colonial Sand and Stone Co. Inc., Pope bought three Italian-language dailies which he merged into one. After supporting Italy's fascist regime for a dozen years, Publisher-Politico Pope repudiated Mussolini in 1941, was active in pushing the U.S.-to-Italy letter-writing campaign which...
Manhattan's II Progresso Italo-Ameri-cano had run a full-page ad last January calling for a committee of 100,000 to get at least a million letters off to Italy posthaste. Points to be made to relatives in the old country: food and relief has been coming from the U.S., not Yugoslavia or other Soviet satellites; Italy's hope for peace depends...
...main purpose of Il Mondo was to undercut the biggest two Italian dailies of the U.S., Il Progresso Italo-Americana and Correire d'America, owned by New York sand and gravel Tycoon Generoso Pope. For Publisher Pope has often been accused of hobnobbing with Fascist bigshots, of employing Fascists on his editorial staffs, of printing pro-American editorials in English and pro-Mussolini editorials in Italian...
...final turning point came six weeks ago when Publisher Pope put his papers in the hands of the high-powered public-relations firm of Institute of Public Relations, Inc. Soon to a Montana internment camp went Il Progresso's No. 1 reporter Gene Rea, reported in a feature article that Italian prisoners were mostly happy, excellently treated. Other similar stories followed...