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Starting as a hill town cobbler's son, Aretino became the most powerful and popular writer in Europe, was perhaps the greatest and certainly the dirtiest master of low vernacular prior to Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Through blackmail, stark flattery, incredible effrontery, and a genius for spotlighting weakness wittily, he forced most of the greatest men of his time to pay his way and to acknowledge him as equal. His great friend Titian described him as "a condottiere (gangster boss) of literature." Biographer Chubb compares his fame to that of Byron, his influence to that of Voltaire...
...Then he will form a Danubian Federation-a democratic super-monarchy patterned after Great Britain, embracing Austria, Hungary, Bohemia-Moravia, Poland, Rumania (blithely overlooking well-intrenched Carol II) and Yugoslavia (overlooking the Habsburg-hating Serbs, who touched off World War I by murdering Otto's granduncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand). Otto places great hopes for backing in the U. S., where his unimposing brother Archduke Felix has been propagandizing his cause since last November...
Last week in Manhattan Charles Edward Smith, historian (Jazzmen) and friend of America's native rhythms, produced through new General Records Co. an album of barrelhouse tunes played by the greatest surviving barrel-houser-54-year-old Ferdinand ("Jelly Roll") Morton. The album's title is Jetty Roll Morton's New Orleans Memories, and both musically and otherwise Jelly has much of interest to remember...
...owes its existence, many of its powers, to a wave of front-page indignation engineered by Ferdinand Pecora, who took over the Senate Banking & Currency investigation of 1932-33. When he showed how Charlie Mitchell rigged the market in Anaconda; how Rudolph Spreckels made over$14,000,000 in the Kolster Radio pool while suckers lost their shirts; how Dick Whitney, pegging a German bond issue, waited till the Morgans were out before he "pulled the plug"; how the Stock Exchange of 1929 really worked-the New Deal was able to write its own ticket for Federal regulation of security...
Henry Villard bought The Nation in 1 88 1. Villard was a native of Bavaria; his name was Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard, but he changed it when he quarreled with his father and fled to the U. S. A reporter, Civil War correspondent, railway promoter, financier, Villard married Gar rison's sister Fanny. He left The Nation to his son, Oswald Garrison Villard, when he died...