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Died. Generoso Pope, 59, Italian-born New Yorker who rose from $3-a-week water boy to Tammany Hall big shot and publisher of one of the country's largest foreign-language newspapers, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (circ. 78,000) ; after long illness; in Manhattan. With profits from his $8,847,988 Colonial Sand and Stone Co. Inc., Pope bought three Italian-language dailies which he merged into one. After supporting Italy's fascist regime for a dozen years, Publisher-Politico Pope repudiated Mussolini in 1941, was active in pushing the U.S.-to-Italy letter-writing campaign which...
Even La Sea la. Last week, Italian-born Composer Menotti's days of counting the customers seemed to be over, and that was a prospect that Menotti was regarding with considerable concern. A few days after his new opera, The Consul, opened on Broadway (TIME, March 27), he phoned Producer Cowles and said in a subdued voice: "Well, I guess we have a success on our hands. Now is when we must be humble...
...Italian-born father started him at 19 in the family metals plant in Sāo Paulo. Not long afterwards, the father died. Taking over the business, Baby resolved to build an industrial empire. He drove himself hard from 7:30 a.m. till the Oasis opened at night. He showed an extraordinary mechanical bent. He wore old clothes, worked in the shops, ate with the men. His war-booming Laminaçāo.ao Nacional de Matais grew into the largest non-ferrous rolling mill in South America, employing 20 times as many men and doing 40 times as much business...
Jealous Gods. Italian-born Author Ruesch, who was a world-traveling racing-car driver until a crackup made a writer out of him, saves his sympathy for the Eskimos and his wrath for missionaries who, with "tea and keks," are trying to change the Eskimos' manners & morals. Readers who gobble up Author Ruesch's enticing fictional blubber-ball may never suspect that it is dialectical bear bait until the later pages, where an aged anga-kok (medicine man) sums up his people's primitive philosophy, and makes it sound as up-to-date as a modern university...
Died. Monty Banks (real name: Mario Bianchi), 52, Italian-born onetime silent film comedian, producer-director husband of British Comedienne Gracie Fields; of a heart ailment; in Arona, Italy...