Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maxim's in Paris on her tenth wedding anniversary, high-strung Operatic Soprano Maria Callas, 35, made a pronouncement between helpings of selle d'agneau à la Callas. Manhattan-born Singer Callas attributed most of her professional success to the offstage support of her Milan tycoon husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 64: "When I met him I was the most ridiculous singer of Italy, and he, a wealthy industrialist who owned 20 building-material plants, said, 'You have the most beautiful voice in the world,' and-thanks to his tenacity, his persuasion and his constant help...
Soon Tom cornered Giovanni Battista Volonté, 53, flashed a press pass at him, told him he was a "policeman," and dragged a signed confession from him. After Volonté sang, Tom located the printing presses where false labels and boxes were made, dragged two more of the gang in and extracted confessions from them too. Then he went to Milan's Police Chief Mario Nardone and handed over his suspects...
...Enzo d'Agostino felt in a forgiving mood. In the chapel of Catania's prison he married her, then went home to wait for her release from jail. It might not be long; so moved was all Italy by Vincenzina's story last week that President Giovanni Gronchi was reportedly about to pardon...
...Giovanni's son Tito took over the firm, but the dynasty's organizational genius was Grandson Giulio, an ironic, meticulously dressed man, who dabbled in poetry and chamber music, negotiated so shrewdly that Casa Ricordi realized as much as 65% from the earnings of its composers' work. With a near-monopolistic control over Italian opera, Giulio attended rehearsals at La Scala, recommended the hiring or firing of singers, publicly castigated conductors. A pet hate for a time: Toscanini, whose style he once likened to a "mastodonic mechanical piano." Above all, Giulio commissioned Arrigo...
...will expire, to be followed before too long by the works of Puccini.*The firm may then become largely a record company (present U.S. distributors: RCA Victor, Mercury and Westminster). Artists-and-repertory chief of its burgeoning record division: Carlo Emanuele ("Nanni") Ricordi, 26, great-great-great grandson of Giovanni...