At Bologna three months ago, Conductor Arturo Toscanini was set upon and buffeted by a Fascist mob because he would not play their anthem (Giovinezza) at a concert he was conducting in memory of his dead friend, Composer Giuseppe Martucci (TIME, June 22). At that time Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra said in Berlin: "The Fascists will kill that man yet. He is so sensitive that he will never be able to stand the shock."
Aside from a good scaring, Conductor Toscanini suffered no after-ill from the Bologna beating, but last week...
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