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...Fabbri brothers-Giovanni, 43, Dino, 41, and Rino, 36-started with a small textbook company after World War II. Shrewdly figuring that Italy's growing middle class had both an urge to learn and an eagerness to buy almost anything on the installment plan, the Fabbris decided to turn out books that sell like magazines. Their first offering, a four-volume encyclopedia issued in 48 weekly installments at 350 each, has been translated into 40 languages and has attracted 3,000,000 customers. The Fabbris followed up with serialized encyclopedias of science, sport, fairy tales and the arts, prepared...
Valdo Magnani and Aldo Cucchi, Deputies and former comrades who have put Italy ahead of Russia, dropped in last week on a small foundry owner, Giacomo Fabbri, in Ferrara. While they lunched on rice and salami, the foundry's workmen sent them a note of welcome and a request for a talk. They agreed. Meanwhile, word of their presence had reached the ears of Maria Prampolini Bonfanti, a hatchet-faced, middle-aged Red partisan, known as La Passionaria di Ferrara.* At local party rallies, La Passionaria always gives orders when to clap and when to boo. Now she quickly...
...Renaissance Florence the Antinori family were the leaders of the silk weavers guild. A present day Antinori is chic Princess Caetani (née Cora Antinori), who is also a granddaughter of Egisto P. Fabbri, partner of the first J. P. Morgan. It was not inappropriate, therefore, last week when Princess Caetani appeared at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel with Mrs. Harrison ("World's Best Dressed Woman") Williams in tow, to display unique yarns and fabrics developed in Italy by the great firm of Snia Viscosa and soon to be offered...
...someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine and from the impresario of the troupe, Colonel Wassily de Basil, stood the beauteous prima ballerina assoluta of the Rome and Milan operas, Attilia Radice, and her journalist and balletomane husband, Paolo Fabbri...
...dickering to sign them up for his troupe before Massine could get off the stage. Massine, too, wanted the No. 1 de Basil to take charge of another ballet group. But Massine's onstage frenzies and his backstage pleadings were no use: Colonel de Basil won Radice (and Fabbri) with offers of $700 apiece per month on any U. S. tour he might take them on, $450 in England, $300 in Italy or France...