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Died. Ildebrando ("Papa") Zacchini, 80, Italian-born circus impresario who introduced the human cannon ball act in 1922; in Tampa, Fla. Patriarch of two generations of the often injured but never killed "Flying Zacchinis" (the stunt has led 32 non-Zacchinis to their deaths), Ildebrando lost a leg seven years ago, after he had already retired to devote himself to painting...
Gian-Carlo Menotti, a young Italian-born composer, having written, composed, and directed "The Medium" and "The Telephone," is personally responsible for one of the most striking evenings the theatre has offered in recent years. The entire production--the same as the one that spent the summer on Broadway--reflects the vitality and originality of the composer, and both of the one-act operas extend the horizons of the musical theatre in America...
...minutes before the game ended. Walt Klausson tapped in the last Lord Jeff goal on a pass from Dick Donati, his agile Italian-born left wing...
...faculty and student council, he started raising money (from students, educators, friends) to found a special summer seminar at Salzburg, Austria-for Europeans only. From U.S. colleges and universities he picked a dozen top educators to teach. He chose erudite Francis Otto Matthiessen (American Renaissance) to teach U.S. literature, Italian-born Historian Gaetano Salvemini to teach U.S. history, Anthropologist Margaret Mead for sociology, and James Johnson Sweeney, onetime director of painting and sculpture at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...season Broadway productions are usually of the "Blossom Time" or "light summer fare" school. This year's June audiences, though, are being given a preview of what may turn out to be a musical revolution that has been brewing in New York for decades. Gian-Carlo Menotti, young Italian-born American composer, has written an opera, and unlike most of his fellow composers, he has had the right combination of skill and luck to get it produced-at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre along with his curtain-raiser, "The Telephone...