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Education of Sogno. This was the first time that such strong charges had been aired in Italy's Parliament-which explained the Communists' wrath. But millions of Italians had been talking about the accusations in recent weeks, as the result of a systematic campaign to dish out the true dirt on the Reds. The campaign is the work of slight, natty Edgardo Sogno, 39, who was one of Italy's top resistance heroes in the war. Toward the end of the war, when the Germans were still holding on in the north, Sogno smuggled so many refugees...
...Paris, after the war, as a member of the Italian foreign service, Sogno became impressed by the posters and publications of Jean Paul David's anti-Communist Paix et Liberté movement (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950). After the heavy blow to Italian democracy in the 1953 elections, Sogno returned to Rome and started an anti-Communist monthly called Pace e Libertà. For his editor Sogno chose a formidable man: square-jawed Luigi Cavallo, an ex-Communist and ex-editor of the Red daily L'Unità. To dish the dirt on the Reds, Cavallo drew on extensive...
Begun on a shoestring, Pace e Libertà got off to a slow start, but now is growing by leaps and bounds. Its paid circulation is 70,000, and an almost equal number of copies are distributed free, many of them to the Communists themselves. Recently Sogno got enough funds to buy up the entire poster space in Rome for five days, and put up 6,000 posters devoted to the past of Italy's top Communists. At first, the Reds said disdainfully that they would not reply to such "drivel," but lately they have felt driven to long...
...studied with Frank La Forge in Manhattan, served in the Navy, married, got a job with the Metropolitan Opera Company. One night in 1925 an odd thing happened to him. He was sitting in his dressing room after the second act of Verdi's Falstaff-his aria, "E sogno," had ended the act. He heard the house applauding but thought they wanted the Falstaff-Antonio Scotti. The call boy said it was for him and as he hurried back he could hear them shouting his name. For the first time a U. S. singer, relatively obscure, had brought down...
...entr'acte dimmed; still the great sound continued. In his dressing-room, a 28-ysar old U.S. baritone powdered his nose. Cast with the revered Scotti in the season's revival of Verdi's Falstaff, he had just ended the second act with the aria E sogno, in which he sets forth his suspicions that his spouse, Mistress Ford, is plotting infidelity with "that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years," Falstaff (Scotti). The heat of his singing had melted his makeup. He had taken numerous curtain calls with Scotti. People were...