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This time the man who supplied the leadership was a plump little Italian-born U.S. labor leader named Serafino Romualdi. As the American Federation of Labor's walking delegate in Latin America, he had tirelessly gone up & down the continent lining up pro-democratic trade unionists. He knew intimately the leader of every I.L.O. worker delegation, and though his role at the conference was only an adviser's, he was unquestionably the most influential man present. Even the Argentines, who had bustled in 37-strong, handing out Peronista tracts, wisely decided to string along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Under New Management | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Growing Up. The Reporter's editor, publisher and financial angel is scholarly, Italian-born Max Ascoli, 50, whose opposition to Mussolini, while teaching political philosophy at an Italian university, forced him to leave Italy for the U.S. in 1931. Ascoli has since taught at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, recently wrote a book of political philosophy, The Power of Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cub Reporter | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Sounds Corny. Neither of Peter's Italian-born parents was a musician, but for their home in Erie, Pa. they bought a phonograph and taught sons Peter and Lewis (Lewis is now 28 and a composer-teacher at the University of Texas) to listen to records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No. 4 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Take a well-bred young English lady named Armorel Cepinnier and bind her in matrimony to Gian ("Toughie") Ardree, an Italian-born bricklayer with quick fists and a slow brain, and you can have a nice stew of social and psychological problems. Set the uplift-minded Armorel and the hairy-chested Toughie to living in one of the meanest streets of one of London's slums, and the stew is likely to become too thick to stir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miscalculated Mission | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...girl who passes the finals will receive, over the air, a free course in English from Italian-born Actress Elissa Landi (who is also a novelist). For the past three years Miss Landi has been teaching radio & television students at the College of the City of New York how to tidy up their bad accents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pygmalion | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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