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Finally, three weeks ago, Lawyer Campanella drew up a contract to let Siqueiros do the job. The painter took one look at its provisions, pronounced them insulting, shoved Campanella and his brother down a flight of stairs...
Fighting Painter. To begin with, Director Alfredo Campanella (who bought the school as part of a deal for a nearby ranch) had got himself embroiled in a row with terrible-tempered Painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. Maestro Siqueiros had come to San Miguel for a lecture series, then returned for one week each month to direct the students' work on a new mural. Increasingly excited over the project, Siqueiros wanted to work full time to complete it. Campanella, anxious to prolong the publicity the Maestro's presence was bringing his school, balked...
...Campanella's students and most of his faculty sided with Siqueiros. When Campanella announced that he had banned the Maestro from the premises, they offered their resignations. In Mexico City, Siqueiros roared that Campanella was a "gangster" whose "frauds . . . are now a criminal matter." Diego Rivera and 40-odd other topflight Mexican painters got off a fire-breathing manifesto charging Campanella with breach of contract, and declared a boycott against the school...
Home & to Bed. Campanella got to be a catcher for two reasons: 1) he was a born athlete and 2) none of the other kids in his Philadelphia neighborhood ever wanted to catch. In his junior year at Simon Gratz High School (where he had already won letters in baseball, football, basketball and track), the Negro Bacharach Giants offered him $50 a weekend. That was the end of school as far as Campy was concerned. After he left the Bacharach Giants, he went with the Baltimore Elite Giants, backstopped in the eastern U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba...
...Dodgers picked up Campanella in 1946, gave him his minor-league training at Nashua, N.H. and Montreal. This year, except in one game of a doubleheader, Burt Shotton hasn't used anyone but Campanella behind the plate...