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...Scala conductor in the audience stood up and took Menotti's side. "Cretini! Stùpidi! Ignoranti!" he exploded. "You haven't even read the libretto!" Possibly some of the Commies in the audience knew all about the libretto-The Consul is bitterly antitotalitarian. Even after it was over, and cast and composer took their curtain calls, the battle raged on, with fists flying, outside...
Socially, the President of the Philippines had his fill. In the U.S. for a five-day flying visit, President Elpidio ("Pidi-ong") Quirino was met at National Airport by Harry Truman and a 21-gun salute. He spent a night at Blair House, addressed the House and Senate, whirled through Washington cocktail parties into a ticker-tape welcome in New York, where he lunched with Cardinal Spellman and picked up an honorary doctorate from Fordham. Said he of steaming Manhattan: "The weather ... is very poor...
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