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...last week showed the U.S. how to put on a new opera in English for operatic pin money. With a budget of $9,000 (mostly for sets, etc.) and a cast of home-town talent, townsmen rolled up their sleeves and mounted a three-acter by U.S. Composer Vittorio Giannini, based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...
...Giannini's Shrew was a joint enterprise for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the city's Music-Drama Guild, whose singers sang without pay. Shrew Katharina was sung by Dorothy Short, an insurance agent, Husband Petruchio by Robert Kircher, a professional trombone player. "The important thing," said Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson, "was to give all segments of the community a chance to take part...
...biggest U.S. bank last week got a new president. To succeed the late Lawrence Mario ("L.M.") Giannini, the Bank of America picked Carl Frederick Wente, 63, a director and, until his retirement three years ago, the bank's senior vice president. A protege of Founder Amadeo Peter ("A.P.") Giannini, Wente is the first outsider to boss the bank's 535 branches, and more than $7.5 billion resources. Also named last week to the executive committee: A.P.'s daughter, Claire Giannini Hoffman, previously a director...
Wente, as gusty and hustling as Founder Giannini, is the son of an immigrant farmer. He grew up in California's Livermore Valley, left high school after two years to become a messenger in Oakland's Central Bank.*Just 30 years later, he was named Central Bank president after bossing branch banks in Madera, Visalia, Fresno, Modesto and Stockton. As a smalltown banker, much of his time was spent on horseback, riding with the ranchers, digging up business, just as young A.P. used to tramp the furrows behind plowing farmers. A deep-voiced six-footer who talks...
...Washington last week; if they would look in a spot in the Maryland woods thirty miles from the capital, they would find a big still. Three agents hustled to the spot. When they got close, they sniffed the telltale reek of fermenting *Background: portrait of Founder A. P. Giannini. mash. Led by their noses, they found a nice big still and vats that could hold 7,000 gallons of mash, enough to produce 240 gallons of high-proof moonshine a day. As the agents dynamited the still, one said: "I've never seen one this big before, even...