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Millionaire Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni finally had a feather in his cap that wasn't macaroni. Achieving the "fondest dream" of his 70 years, would-be Basso Profundo Buitoni hired Manhattan's Carnegie Hall and packed it with friends and employees from his Hackensack, N.J., headquarters to make a rafter-rattling concert debut. Belting out arias from Rigoletto and Ernani, the Italian-born industrialist brought the momentous evening to a wildly bravoed climax by joining Metropolitan Opera Star Licia Albanese in a duet from Don Giovanni and smothering her with kisses as a reward for "carrying...
...official handicap sheet of the Soviet Communist hierarchy: mop-haired Mikhail A. Suslov, 58, party braintruster and veteran member of the Presidium. Three times last week Pravda quoted lengthily from "important" Suslov speeches. Unsurprising contents of all three: fawning eulogies of steady booster Nikita Khrushchev. . . . Wealthy Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni's money is in his tummy, but his heart is really in his throat. The 68-year-old macaroni maker is going into opera, he says, to "fulfill one of my fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity performance of The Barber...
...Among them Buitoni Foods, which last week sent President Giovanni Buitoni back to Italy to set up a frozen-food industry. The 129-year-old, world wide Buitoni organization started freezing lasagne, ravioli, macaroni and cheese in the U.S. in 1950, did so well it decided to market them to Italian housewives, using Italy's ice-cream dealers as outlets...
...Joseph Paul DiMaggio Jr., 38, onetime vice president in charge of batting, fielding and gate receipts for the New York Yankees, was appointed vice president in charge of public relations on the West Coast for Buitoni Foods Corp., makers of spaghetti and other pasta products...