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...wings. While working together in Rome, they had discovered that neutrons (themselves discovered in 1932) could be slowed down by passage through water or paraffin. Thus slowed, the neutrons were much more likely to be captured by other elements, making them radioactive. A friend of the scientists, Gabriel M. Giannini,* thought the process might have commercial value, but practically no one else did. Such great U.S. companies as Du Pont, General Electric and American Cyanamid showed no interest...
...Chairman Belgrano was given executive powers equal to his own, Transamerica President Sam H. Husbands, 62, promptly resigned his $75,000-a-year job in a huff. Belgrano, the son of the president of San Francisco's Banca Popolare Fugazi (one of the foundations of A. P. Giannini's Bank of America empire), was a $35-a-week messenger for the Bank of California in 1916, served as a 2nd lieutenant in World War I, then joined his father's bank as assistant cashier. Climbing the financial ladder, he became president of Pacific National Fire Insurance (another...
...opening night, an audience of 2,000 found Giannini's music agreeably oldfashioned, and although the show was no Kiss Me, Kate, they went away humming the tunes. Composer Giannini, 49, a Manhattan professor of composition, sounded more than once as if he had gone to melody school with Puccini...
...text was adapted by one of Giannini's pupils at the Juilliard School of Music, and nearly everybody was able to keep up with the lines, despite the heavy screen of sound thrown up by the full (90 pieces) Cincinnati Symphony. Composer Giannini was called to the stage for "the most tremendous ovation I ever...
Even the press enjoyed itself. Wrote Critic Henry S. Humphreys in the Times-Star: "There has been a jinx on operas based on Shakespeare's plays. With the possible exception of Otello, not one of them has held the stage. I confidently predict that Vittorio Giannini's The Taming of the Shrew . . . will break the Shakespeare jinx...