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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alberto Bellardi Ricci, Italian minister to Stockholm, was about to take his new post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Christmas Caller | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...maid ushered the caller into the study; he was an Italian named Giuseppe Capocci. The maid served him a glass of vermouth and invited him to drink the minister's health. Capocci glumly refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Christmas Caller | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Police and doctors told the rest of the story. Capocci was a balloon vendor who had lived in Stockholm for 19 years. He was mad. Ten years ago he tried to see the Italian minister (one of Ricci's predecessors), was received only by a clerk. He never forgot the slight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Christmas Caller | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Metropolitan Operagoers had heard and cheered Italian Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini as no other new Met star had been cheered since before the war (TIME, Jan. 20, 1947). Last week they heard his wife too; the critics applauded discreetly, but they did no cheering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Duet | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Last week a capacity crowd sludged through the snow to hear Tagliavini as Cavaradossi and his wife in the title role of Tosca. It was opera, full-flavored Italian style. Pia, revealing dramatic skill, a tender middle voice, and disturbingly razorish top range, was roundly applauded even in arias where critics found her wanting. Tagliavini was in top form. Between them, husband & wife managed to carry off a production that was closer to first rate than the Met usually achieves these lackluster days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Duet | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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