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...cellist of dashing good looks. His wife, Giuseppina, six years older than he and a former volunteer nurse, was an iron-willed woman. When Renata was only three months old, Teobaldo deserted his family, and Giuseppina returned with the baby to her family's home in Langhirano, near Parma, where Grandfather was postmaster and owner of a general store. In the pale blue, two-story masonry house with the post office, a barbershop and ice-cream stand on the ground floor, Renata grew up, surrounded by a dozen relatives...
Arias for Dolls. A solemn, solitary child, Renata started playing the piano when she was eight. Grandfather occasionally took her over to the opera house in Parma, and Renata took to putting her dolls to bed at night while singing Parigi, O cara from La Traviata. By ten, her voice was so penetrating that the merchants downstairs complained...
...origins were simple-his father was a poor Parma tailor-but his genius was plain in childhood. He never wanted to be anything but a musician, and he never was. He was often open and fun-loving among his friends, but toward the public he was shy. He shunned personal honors and shrank from personal publicity (he never granted a formal interview in his life). He was content with the limited kingdom of concert hall and home, and in that kingdom he was as absolute a monarch as ever lived. He was the highest-salaried classical conductor in history...
...research plants are springing up almost as fast as factories. In the past two months alone, General Motors dedicated its $100 million Technical Center in Detroit; U.S. Steel opened a $10 million laboratory at Monroeville Pa.; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. moved into a $6,000,000 Parma (Ohio) research complex; General Electric completed a $5,000,000 Cleveland laboratory for the study of "psychological and physiological effects of lighting on humans, animals and plants." Other multimillion-dollar research centers are being blueprinted by Ford Motor, General Dynamics' General Atomic Division, Westinghouse Electric, Koppers, Gulf...
After a stretch in a Parma jail, Italy's serious-minded Humorist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camilla) Guareschi, sentenced to twelve months for libeling the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi, was sprung conditionally, time off for good behavior. Matter of principle: given a chance to ask for a cut in his sentence last October, Prisoner Guareschi, in no mood for apologies or parole pleas, politely declined the opening, doggedly stuck to his cell...