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...Cetra-Soria's Aïda (6 sides LP). An Italian cast, including Tenor Mario Filippeschi, Soprano Caterina Mancini, Mezzo Giulietta Simionato and Baritone Rolando Panerai, gives a fine performance, as does the Orchestra and Chorus of Radio Italiana under Vittorio Gui. The recording is excellent. Less successful: Remington's Rigoletto (6 sides LP), performed by undistinguished soloists and a lackluster orchestra and chorus of Florence's Maggio Musicale. The recording is fair...
Clifton "Belvedere" Webb is back with more boffs. In fact, the first scene opens on graduation ceremonies at Willa Remington College where his daughter is head of her class and valedictorian. Although Webb takes the role of Mr. Osborne, a proud, pampering father of an only child, Belvedere is still rampant and still funny...
...months ago, the U.S. court of appeals unanimously reversed the perjury conviction of sandy-haired William Remington, onetime $10.000-a-year economist in the Commerce Department. Remington was convicted of lying when he denied that he was ever a member of the Communist Party. The judge had erred, the appeals judges found, in being "vague and indefinite" in defining "membership...
Last week another federal grand jury in New York indicted Remington again. At his first trial, the jury noted. Remington had denied that he ever passed any Government secrets to any Communist spy. Elizabeth Bentley testified that he gave documents to her, and that she was a Communist spy. Remington said he had never attended a Communist Party meeting in Knoxville. Tenn., where he worked as a TVA messenger at the age of 19. Three ex-TVA employees said he had. He said he had never paid party dues. His wife and Miss Bentley testified that he did. He said...
Charged with perjury in these five instances. Remington was liable to a total sentence of 25 years and $10,000 in fines. Remington's lawyers protested that the new indictment was "a vicious device" to avoid a Supreme Court review of his original conviction. Observed the American Civil Liberties Union: "It may not be a matter of double jeopardy technically, but it is morally...