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...presented to NBC televiewers and listeners in the spring of 1949. When RCA Victor decided to cut records from the broadcast tapes, Toscanini returned from retirement in 1954 to conduct at Carnegie Hall portions of the opera which did not satisfy him-namely, Soprano Herva Nelli's O Patria Mia and Ritorna Vincitor! (TIME, June 14, 1954). Last week Victor released (on three LPs) Toscanini's composite and deftly sound-doctored Aïda, the opera in which he made his conducting debut in Rio de Janeiro 71 years...
...been blacklisted by the U.S., and the Italian government refuses to grant him import or export licenses. He has built a fortune by arranging deals between China and Italian suppliers. Through Gentili they ship textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and other nonstrategic items, although the Milan right-wing daily, La Patria, charged that Contact Man Muratori is "a notorious trafficker in strategic materials to the Soviet bloc." Gentili repays the Reds doubly for his virtual monopoly by pouring much of his profit into the treasury of the Communist-lining Italian Socialist Party of his good friend Pietro Nenni. (Gentili's contributions...
...stopped from devouring a Red Riding Hood named Guatemala by an ax blow from Uncle Sam. On the axhead: a picture of Castillo Armas. Another joshed his style of rule by decree, showing him whipping up two mules labeled "Congress" and "Courts." The motto of his revolution, Dios, Patria y Libertad, was devastatingly changed on the float to Adiós, Patria y Libertad...
...bright tapestry over vast expanses of the exterior walls. On the building's north façade the mosaics soar to a ten-story climax where a great mural in reds, yellows and greens covers 4,800 sq. ft. In the center is a figure symbolizing La Patria, a woman dressed in Indian costume; above her is a Mexican eagle flanked by representations of Revolutionist Emiliano Zapata and Aztec Emperor...
...aria from the Nile Scene. Toscanini demanded that she sing a long, difficult phrase in one breath. "I know," he had said earlier, "there is not a soprano today who does it. But you do it." He also insisted on his own interpretation of anguish in the phrase O patria mia, o patria mia. He sang it through himself, beating his chest. Nelli tried it. No, no, said the maestro, and launched into the phrase again, leaning toward her, hugging his own shoulders, swaying in sorrow. When finally the recording began, Nelli's voice rang through the hall with...