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...Maestro è morto!" shouted the newsboys in Milan. Everyone understood. To Milan, and to much of the world, there was only one Maestro-Arturo Toscanini. At La Scala, long Toscanini's artistic home, scene of some of his greatest triumphs, a rehearsal for a new opera (by French Composer Francis Poulenc) was hastily called off.. As the musicians went home quietly, one violinist said: "He has gone on golden wings." In Milan's Casa di Riposo, which was founded by Verdi and to which Toscanini contributed, aged singers and musicians started a fast. And at Toscanini...
...loudspeakers in the living room were silent, but everywhere the eulogies and the memorials began. In Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, a solemn pontifical Requiem Mass was offered by Cardinal Spellman (though Toscanini had never been noticeably religious). His body will be taken to Milan for burial. Arturo Toscanini's epitaph might best be expressed in words spoken by the Austrian poet Grillparzer at Beethoven's grave: "Whoever comes after him will not be able to continue; he will have to begin again, for his predecessor ended only where art itself must...
CORPORATIONS Catini to the U.S At a private luncheon in Milan with a group of Italian industrialists, New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston extolled the advantages of listing their stocks on the Big Board, where they would have free access to the world's biggest financial market. One of the intent listeners was blue-eyed, blueblood Count Carlo Faina, 62, president of Italy's giant Montecatini Co. Last week the exchange made an announcement: about Feb. 15, provided SEC agrees, the New York Stock Exchange will list 20 million shares of Catini, as it is known...
...into the business in ten years, bought 2,000 forklift trucks, mechanized production with thousands of new machines. He abandoned Donegani's one-man rule for a U.S.-style line-and-staff system, authorized plant managers to run the works on the spot, set up executive committees in Milan to supervise the major decisions and divisions. On the technical side he held a lighter rein, giving considerable scope to Engineer Perio Giustiniani. a fellow Tuscan who has served with Faina as co-president since...
...midseason for a good room with meals -but many guests spend a great deal more, often throw little parties for 30 or 40 friends, pick up a $4,000 check. Once, tiring of the Palace's three orchestras, Niarchos and Chilean Magnate Arturo Lopez ordered a band from Milan, heard one number, sent it packing and hired another. On the insistence of wealthy guests who wanted an ultra-exclusive ski club, the Palace agreed to manage the Corviglia Ski Club and operate a skiers' restaurant atop 10,000-ft.-high Piz Nair. Devoted Guests Loel Guinness and Niarchos...