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...secluded synagogues, Steinberg took its best musicians to Palestine, where he and Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Hubermann invited Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first public concert in Tel Aviv. Toscanini listened to a few well-rehearsed bars, nodded his approval and mumbled: "Molto bene [very good...
Ever since Boccaccio or before, Italians have had a saying: "Se non é vero, é bene trovato-It may not be true, but it's a good story." Last week, according to the A.P., Italians were telling this tale...
...inheritance dwindled, Schoolmaster Duncan began to slip. Struggling to stay in business, he rented the mansion in Lenox for $200 a month from one Bene Virgilio. When the plumber walked in, Duncan was out of town (for the fifth straight week) on business...
...fewer than 20 cows, cannot afford to keep or hire a superior bull. Dr. Bartlett believes that artificial insemination, with a few great bulls fathering most of the nation's calves, is economically inevitable (already nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey calves are so bred). One incidental bene fit, he observes, is that bulls, which almost invariably become vicious after their fourth or fifth year, will be largely eliminated as a menace to life & limb in the U.S. countryside...
...mechanic stepped from a transport plane at a captured Sicilian airdrome, shouted to the others in his unit: "If you see any natives, just say 'Come state?' and they'll say 'Bene, Bene.' " His name was Italian, his parents, in America, were Italian, and he added: "I've got a grandmother somewhere around here...