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Nearly two years of sporadic strikes, riots, sinking trade balances, a franc devaluation and other troubles led French Economist Jean-Marie Albertini to invent a Monopoly-like game called Ec-oplany. In it, players assume the role of finance ministers and try to outwit each other at running a national economy. By rolling dice, each participant is tossed from recessions to failing harvests to baby booms. Unless he learns quickly, a novice will find himself strikebound, bankrupt or on the verge of civil war in no time...
Milan's Corriere has always been profitable (1956 net: "more than $1,000,000"), made money even after the government drove out thunderously anti-Fascist Editor Luigi Albertini in 1925 and enlisted the paper in Mussolini's journalistic claque. The present owners of the conservative Corriere are three aging, textile-millionaire Crespi brothers (Mario, 78, Aldo, 73, Vittorio, 62). The Crespis, who took control of the paper when Albertini left, say that their only interest in Corriere is "to maintain its high traditions." Among the traditions: good pay, short hours, and a respectful attitude toward newsmen* that...
...quiet hung over Paris' Museum of Modern Art one day last week when Guard Antoine Albertini heard a spine-tingling sound coming from the main gallery; he was not a nervous man, but the gallery held most of the 114 famous paintings of the "Masterpieces of the 20th Century" exhibit (TIME, June 2) and they were worth millions. Albertini cat-footed to the doorway and froze in his tracks. Visible in the glow from the windows were two men cutting masterpieces out of their frames with razors. Albertini whipped out his pistol, cried, "Haut les mains...
Meanwhile, in Paris, correspondents were asking: "Who is Count Pepito di Albertini?" Since the Parisian police keep a very careful record of all strangers, it was to M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe that reporters turned. They received a reply which was suavity itself: "Our records show that this gentleman came with Miss Baker from America, three years ago, as her manager. Their addresses in Paris have always been the same, although this residence has changed several times. The gentleman has never claimed a title other than 'Monsieur...
Meanwhile Negro friends of Miss Baker in Harlem, New York City, positively asserted that she was the wife of a Pullman porter named George Baker. By this time the confusion and sensation were international. The Associated Press put its Rome correspondents to work tracing Count Pepito di Albertini. For three days they ransacked Italian genealogical and police records-found no such name-announced the fact...