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Died. Mario Crespi, 82, multimillionaire co-owner (with his two surviving brothers, Aldo and Vittorio) of Milan's staid daily Cornere della Sera, Italy's biggest (circ. 450,000), most influential paper, a landowner, industrialist and art collector; after a long illness; in Milan...
...Oberon. Four other ladies rustled their way into permanent niches in the stratospheric Fashion Hall of Fame in recognition of their "faultless taste in dress without ostentation or extravagance." The quartet with tenure, who will no longer have to fret about crashing the list: Rome's Countess Consuelo Crespi, Detroit's Mrs. Henry Ford II, Manhattan-Palm Beach Socialite Mrs. Winston Guest, Manhattan's Mrs. William Randolph Hearst...
...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 is unique on Italy...
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...Professor Leo P. Crespi thinks, as his letter (TIME, Aug. 5) seems to indicate, that the human animal differs from other animals, notably the donkey, because of $50,000-a-year businessmen who become $15,000-a-year college presidents, then no donkey need suffer an inferiority complex. I've met a few college presidents in my day; and all those who were, or ever could be, $50,000-a-year businessmen, you could list on the end of a carrot-the small...