Word: capris
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...smitten lovers each nearing respectably married middle age, could never enjoy their unglamorous fun as much as they suffered their pathetic frustration. September Affair's lovers (Joan Fontaine and Joseph Gotten) have wealth, good looks, talent and an itinerary that covers Naples, Rome, Florence and the isle of Capri. They come close to eating their cake and having...
...officials of Austria's National Bank were looking for ideas on how to decorate a new issue of 50-schilling notes. They finally decided to use a picture of a sturdy little boy named Thorleif Capri, whose blond-curls and cherubic features seemed just the thing to symbolize the pure integrity of Austrian credit. Thorleif's likeness is still on the notes...
Last week Austria's officials were again interested in Thorleif's features. As a grownup, onetime Cherub Capri had been appointed fund raiser for Austria's Orphans' Aid Society. He had got his hands as well as his face on 37,000 schillings' worth of banknotes and quietly absconded...
...most enterprising of the new generation was squat, baby-faced Photographer Ivo Meldolesi, 34, who was acquitted of collaboration charges in 1945 for "insufficient proof of guilt." Last spring, Meldolesi made front pages in Europe and the U.S. with two notable beats. Masquerading as a Capri fisherman, he snapped the only picture of Britain's Princess Margaret in a bathing suit; later, he surprised camera-shy Greta Garbo without her hat, got a shot of her covering her face with her long, tawny hair. Last week, Meldo-lesi's energy and enterprise landed him his biggest scoop...
...fashionable quarters, he shared a penthouse with his blonde, toothsome, 28-year-old mistress, Igea Lissoni, a former dancer and nightclub worker. Igea attributes her good fortune to the prophecy of a Milan fortuneteller, who two years ago told her she would meet the man of her dreams in Capri. Igea hastened forthwith to Capri, and there met Lucky Luciano, whose vast suite took up half of a floor in the island's best hotel...