Word: montagnana
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...ideas were under attack in sermons, editorials, posters and street demonstrations. The Christian Family Defense Front sponsored such slogans as: "Beware of saboteurs of the home and family-down with divorce!" which appeared on Italian walls. The church, however, was not Francale's only opponent. Rita Montagnana, wife of Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti, expressed her party's effort to live down its principles: "The majority of women, particularly women of the people, are against divorce." Russia, she pointed out, now put a premium on family stability. Her conclusion on the proposed divorce law: "Why should we Communists...
...inch longer than his Amati, was built by the only U.S.-born member of the 300-year-old European Guild of Violinmakers, a stocky, shy Philadelphian named William Moennig Jr. Moennig also does all the repairing on Efrem Zimbalist's Stradivari violin, Gregor Piatigorsky's Montagnana cello.* Moennig, 40, and his 62-year-old father live and work in a colonial house on Philadelphia's once swank Locust Street, now lined with doctors' offices. The Moennigs sit at benches side by side, poking quietly into ailing old masters with scrapers, knives, gouges, chisels. In a safe...
...Later in the week, the White House had a musicale all its own- 17th and 18th Century chamber music played from original manuscript on 16 Stradivari, Montagnana, Guadanini and Amati instruments from the Ronald Wanamaker collection, under the direction of Dr. Thaddeus Rich. When he heard that Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was nearing Mexico City (see p. 28), President Coolidge took-pen-in-hand and signed an act of Congress conferring the Congressional Medal on Col. Lindbergh. A little while later, while the President was sitting to Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Wright of Cleveland for his portrait, the daughter of another...
...Assembled in Europe last season by experts solely for concert purposes, never before played on in the U. S. The instruments were: First violins?the Joachim Stradivarius, 1723; the La Chesney Stradivarius, 1687; the Montagnana, 1747; a Tecchler, 1722. Second violins?the Dancla Stradivarius, 1710; a Guadagnivi. Violas? a Guadagnivi, 1780; Gaffriller, 1727. Cellos?a Ruger, 1765; a Tecchler...