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...Cause. The youth of Riofreddo, who had feared that Catholic Action would be rather dull, loved the idea. The reluctant few were convinced by the monitory appearance of Father Francesco's green umbrella before their doors. Arturo Vasselli, the carpenter, volunteered to construct a rough stage in a barn. The play chosen was Le Pistrine (the name of the prisons where early Christian martyrs waited their turn to be thrown to the lions...
...been admitted to the National Institute of Arts & Letters but thinks little of some of his colleagues ("Those slobwogs!"). Last year, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Third Symphony, unplayed for 36 years while the manuscript gathered dust in his barn. After receiving the prize, he granted a rare newspaper interview. When a reporter congratulated him, he refused to shake hands, roared: "Prizes, bah! What do I care for prizes! They are the badge of mediocrity...
Across the country, citizens took their own emergency measures. They exhausted store stocks of ear muffs, mittens and long underwear. They used electric toasters for heat, and dragged wood-burning stoves out of the barn...
...running up & down the Midwest for ten years. One night last week, a record 11,216 people pushed & shoved into Kiel Auditorium; 3,000 more were turned away. The crowds wanted to see unbeaten St. Louis U. playing Holy Cross, a storybook basketball squad that practiced in an old barn, traveled 40 miles to Boston to play its "home" games, and became 1947's team of the year. Holy Cross had been beaten only once in 29 games...
Presiding over R.F.D. America is Joe Kelly, a veteran quizmaster (Quiz Kids') and radio hayfoot (National Barn Dance). Wearing a violent plaid shirt, overalls and straw hat, and spouting wheezy barnyard jokes, Kelly is the only jarring note among the soberly dressed, well-scrubbed men & women who participate in the show...