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...about it was to hire the best men he could and engage them in what amounted to a continuous dialogue. The degree of autonomy he gave his editors and the interplay of ideas he encouraged was a constant source of amazement to any outsider who encountered it. The late Aga Khan once offered Luce his memoirs for publication-gratis-in LIFE. He was startled when Luce said he would have to pass the offer along to LIFE's managing editor, and bewildered when the answer came back: No, thanks...
...Continental set are also becoming addicted to the stars. A favorite society astrologer is lissome "Cappy" Badrutt, the California-born wife of the proprietor of the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, who has done horoscopes for Rita Hayworth, Paris Vogue Editor-in-Chief François de Langlade, the Aga Khan, Mrs. Herbert von Karajan, and Baroness Thyssen. Cappy says that a growing number of businessmen are also interested in the practice, because "in these times of uncertainty, people are groping for an answer...
...only hope to begin with. Best of all was the do at the Palazzo Volpi given by Countess Nathalie Volpi di Misurata, Count Volpi's mother. Not very many movie people got invited, of course, but the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur were there, and the Begum Aga Khan was there, and Gina Lollobrigida was there, and Princess von Furstenburg, and Sam Newhouse, and Mrs. Amintore Fanfani, and a number of Bourbon-Parmas, Rothschilds, Patiños, Dubonnets, D'Arenbergs, Romanoffs, Colonnas and Borgheses. It was the best film festival any of them could remember...
...Aga'nst Cornell, steady Steve Bergman rode home to a 4 and 2 victory in the number four match for Harvard's sole...
...family holding company, I.F.I., which owns 25% of Fiat stock. Agnelli became a vice president of Fiat in 1945 and then a managing director in 1963, all the while swinging socially with an easy smile and a classic Roman profile. The skiing and boating pal of everyone from the Aga Khan to Jacqueline Kennedy, he is married to willowy Princess Marella Caracciolo. Italian Communists claim that he is the richest man in Europe, which Agnelli says is "complete nonsense." But he does admit: "I'm the man who pays the highest taxes in Italy...