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Verdi: Excerpts from Falstaff (Mariano Stabile, baritone; Afro Poli, baritone; Vittoria Palombini, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Nessi, tenor; Luciano Donaggio, bass; La Scala Orchestra, Alberto Erede conducting; Capitol-Telefunken; 6 sides). Baritone Stabile, now 61, was the best Falstaff in the business when these recordings were originally made before World War II. Capitol's repressing job is good...
Meanwhile, TIME correspondents in Chicago, Los Angeles, Hot Springs, Ark., San Francisco, New Orleans and Naples (Gangster Lucky Luciano's current retreat), and Researcher Anne Lopatin were doing their own digging into the Costello past and present. Much of it was the business of tracking down rumors which often proved to be untrue, and triple-checking the facts. In the midst of his New Orleans investigation Correspondent Ed Ogle answered his telephone and the following conversation took place...
...Dartmouth. But Frank Costello had the brains, luck and jungle caution to stay rich-rich, alive and free as air-while Al Capone went raving to his grave, while bullets cut down Dutch Schultz and Dion O'Banion, while Lepke Buchalter burned in the electric chair, while Lucky Luciano went off to exile and a hundred minor hoodlums rotted in prison...
...guard against a surprise invasion by the unwanted Don Luciano, the Affricans posted sentries on the road, with conch-shell horns and a bell. They barricaded the doors of the church with stones. When the priest of an adjoining parish, fearing that Affrico had gone too long without the sacraments, came up the mountain to say a Mass, the villagers took down the stones temporarily, but only five people attended...
Last week the church of Affrico was still empty, and its doors still walled up. Don Luciano had not appeared. The archbishop, who could not with dignity knuckle under to the rebellious flock, had referred the matter to Rome. The stubborn Affricans were considering an appeal to the Pope. Said one sharecropper, who is nominally a Communist but whose ideological reliability is subject to grave doubts: "Don Giorgio has been good to our children and risked his life for us. In him we have faith...