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...macaroni. Achieving the "fondest dream" of his 70 years, would-be Basso Profundo Buitoni hired Manhattan's Carnegie Hall and packed it with friends and employees from his Hackensack, N.J., headquarters to make a rafter-rattling concert debut. Belting out arias from Rigoletto and Ernani, the Italian-born industrialist brought the momentous evening to a wildly bravoed climax by joining Metropolitan Opera Star Licia Albanese in a duet from Don Giovanni and smothering her with kisses as a reward for "carrying" him. "As Don Juan," appraised the New York Times, "Mr. Buitoni made up for the lack of power...
Mattei's companion on the river was Charles Forte, 53, an Italian-born British citizen whose creation of a vast snack bar chain has made him one of the few Horatio Algers in Britain's welfare state. Last week, thanks to his angling with Mattei, Forte had a new job: the chairmanship of A.G.I.P. (Great Britain) Ltd., a new E.N.I. marketing subsidiary to which Mattei has given $8,400,000 and orders to build a chain of 70 super service stations in Britain...
...staging well-designed new productions, building an impressive roster of singers, and boldly doubling ticket prices for choice locations, Bing has boosted Met income higher than it has been since the days of Italian-born Impresario Gatti-Casazza's reign in the 1920s. But costs have soared even higher: last season the Met spent $6,950,000. Opera, said Bing last week, is "an art form never designed for the economics of the 20th century." The era has passed, he might have added, when men such as the late Banker Otto Kahn, the Met's perennial chairman...
...most critics, Italian-born Rico Lebrun, 60, ranks today not only as the West Coast's most formidable talent, but one of the finest of those painters who work in the tradition of Goya. Syracuse University recently acquired his huge triptych on the Crucifixion; Pomona College has his majestic Genesis mural, completed early this year; the University of California Press has just published a handsome book of his drawings. At first glance, all this might seem to be the work of a bitter and sick imagination; but the man himself is exactly the opposite. "People think...
...Italian-born laborer, Tozzi, 37, was introduced to music at home on a phonograph stacked with Caruso and Tetrazzini records and with contemporary pop hits (one favorite: "It ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones"). Although he took voice lessons, he majored in biology at Chicago's DePaul University. But jobs were scarce when Tozzi got out of the Army in 1945, and he took to singing wherever he could-in the WGN Theater of the Air chorus, with Skitch Henderson and his orchestra at a local nightclub, at local...