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...Uncle Giorgio was the sagest bandit chieftain in Sicily and, as a man of rugged common sense, considerably disturbed about his favorite nephew, Aquila. Palermo University had turned the poor boy into an intellectual. In particular, Aquila had gone overboard for the doctrines in the books of Oxford's Professor Lissom, the great advocate of free love and flexible philosophy. Clearly, the boy's only hope was his beautiful, semiliterate fiancee, Anisetta, who had a down-to-earth determination to marry Aquila and start having twelve children right away...
...only one to turn him down: Milan's slow-working Giorgio Morandi (TIME, July 18, 1949), who loves to paint bottles as much as Industrialist Verzocchi loves to make bricks. He was unwilling...
Italy's Giorgio de Chirico is the grandpa of a lot of enigmatic modern painting. His empty squares, staring arcades and twisted mannikins have become the common stage properties of surrealism. But De Chirico himself long ago abandoned surrealism for candy-box neoclassicism. So when Turin's Fiat motor corporation wanted to celebrate its golden anniversary, De Chirico seemed just the man to help out with a portrait of the 1950 Fiat...
...committeemen had gone into the valley last November to investigate a two-year-old strike of the National Farm Labor Union (A.F.L.) against the biggest ranch of them all, the n,000-acre Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., producers of $5.9 million worth of grapes, plums, potatoes and asparagus each year. The union complained formally that Di Giorgio had refused to negotiate, then treated the Congressmen to its own 25-minute propagan da film called "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty." The camera poked into sordid one-room shacks, lingered on a leaky shower that served 25 families, studied hollow-eyed...
Behind the Screen. Then the Congressmen went after facts, and what they found told an entirely different story about the domain of old Joe Di Giorgio, the Sicilian immigrant who had drilled wells, laid miles of underground pipe and invested $9.7 million to turn a plot of arid land into a production line of agriculture (TIME, March 11, 1946). Di Giorgio wages had always been as good as any in the valley (currently 80? to $1.10 per hour); Di Giorgio had voluntarily carried workmen's compensation insurance for his employees. His homes for workers were no palaces (some were...