Sandman

Twenty-seven years ago, aged 12, Generoso Pope had a job in Manhattan painting pianos at $3 a week. He had come to the land of opportunity from Italy. Twenty years later successful Mr. Pope owned Colonial Sand & Stone Co. which he believes is now the world's largest. Then he started buying up New York's Italian-language daily and Sunday newspapers. First he bought Il Progresso

Italo-Americano (founded in 1880, circulation: 100,000), biggest in the land. The year after he purchased Bollettino Delia Sera (circulation: 35,000). Last week he acquired another one -- Carrier e d 'America (circulation: 60,000). Corriere and II Progresso have Sunday editions. Still in dependent is // Nuovo Mundo, Labor and anti-Fascist organ (circulation: 32,000). Publisher Pope's reasons for his purchases: ''To hold together the Italian colony in the United States. ... To prevent out side interests getting hold of these mediums . . . possibly to cause dissension later." With his near-monopoly, Generoso Pope, sandman, contractor, publisher, is indeed a man to be reckoned with in the politics and contracts of New York City.

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