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...told Wynn. "It wasn't this way when we had Fascism, signore. We never had to lock our doors in those days." Milan's conservative magazine Oggi jokes that "the initials MSI no longer stand for Movimento Senza Importanza [Movement Without Importance]. Now they mean Maggioranza Silenziosa Italiana [Italy's Silent Majority...
...moguls of Italian business. Her new real estate company will have assets of $160 million. In addition, her holdings extend to the fields of toothpaste (one-third of Italy's output), matches (70% of national production), cosmetics, chemicals, highway construction, paper, banking and mutual funds. Her Postal Market Italiana is the country's first and largest mail-order house. Because she juggles her portfolio constantly, it is difficult to estimate Anna's net worth. She and her husband Giuseppe Bolchini, a respected but lesser-known financier, pay taxes on an income of $800,000 a year...
Rearranging the Portfolio. Moneymen expect that it will take the Vatican some time to shed all of its unwanted stock holdings. The church has retained a small number of Immobiliare shares, but recently sold its controlling interest in Italiana Condotte Acqua, a major construction firm, to a leading Italian holding company, Bastogi...
...young man, Agnelli could hardly have had it any better. His family has long flourished in Italy's subAlpine Piedmont, a region noted for its soldiers and industry. Grandfather Giovanni Agnelli gave up a military career in 1899 and founded, with partners, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino.* After some early hard times, Giovanni took personal control. Soon Fiat prospered on the strength of racing successes. It absorbed many early rivals and moved from artisan to assembly-line production, which enabled it to build 70% of the Italian Army's World War I trucks. The company went on to furnish...
...them were shower-room Carusos. The real blow, though, was his fund-raising gala, featuring Maria Callas. It sold only 30% of the 4,100 seats in the State Fair Music Hall. On the following night, the company opened with an excellent performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri-and got much the same box office results. Kelly was dumfounded. "The response was so bad," he recalls, "that the only possible thing to do was go right ahead and plan a second season before anybody could stop...