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Wherever Father Lombardi goes, the crowds turn out. In Milan and Palermo, crowds of 120,000 to 140,000 have stood in awestruck silence to hear him. When Communists are sent to heckle him-to "burst the bubble of Father Lombardi"-they often find themselves unable to speak; sometimes they are moved even to renounce their political faith. And Italians who have remained cynically on the political sidelines are stirred by this unpretentious priest as no one has stirred them since Saint Francis of Assisi...
Tagliavini had met buxom Pia Tassinari (still her stage name) in Sicily during the war. They were singing opposite each other in Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz in Palermo. Suddenly the air-raid sirens screamed. Audience and singers scurried for shelter. Then Tenor Tagliavini, who had taken an instant shine to the black-eyed soprano, got his chance. In the darkness of the shelter, says he, he murmured "sweet words of comfort...
...other ever since. Married in 1941, they delighted Italy and South America with their Tosca, La Boheme and Werther, but the U.S. had only heard them sing together in concert. They ended each concert with the Duet of the Cherries from the first opera they had sung together in Palermo...
Seekers after culture swarmed Peuser's gallery to see an impressive exhibit of Matisse drawings, attended symphony concerts, heard visiting U.S. composer Aaron Copland conduct his Appalachian Spring ballet suite. Others put their money on the horses at Palermo, San Isidro and La Plata, rattled by train to the mosquito-infested waterways at Tigre for the weekend...
Retaliation. In Palermo, Sicily, street cleaners who were denied a wage boost toured the town redistributing the garbage they had collected the day before...