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...shabby courtroom* in the little town of Chieti last week, Laura Diaz, a young (30), comely Communist, stood charged with the crime of having publicly insulted the Pope. Under the 1929 Lateran Treaty between the Vatican and the Italian government, ratified in the republican constitution, insults to the reigning Pontiff are punishable by imprisonment or fine. The prosecution charged that at a 1948 electoral meeting in Ortona, Laura Diaz had said that the Pope's "hands dripped with the blood of the children of Greece and Palestine" because the Pope had not prevented wars in those countries and that...
...Stockings. Laura Diaz is the daughter of rich Augusto Diaz, lawyer for the famous Ciano family of Leghorn. When Mussolini ousted Count Galeazzo Ciano from his cabinet in 1943, both the Ciano and Diaz families suffered. Soon after, Laura Diaz came into contact with the Communist underground, and when the Germans took over Mussolini's crumbling state she was leader of a Communist cell in Leghorn. Her public career began at a Communist convention in Milan in 1948 when she walked on to the stage wearing red stockings, red jersey, a red ribbon in her hair, presented Communist Boss...
Help from the Poets. Thirteen state witnesses testified against Laura Diaz. All agreed that words insulting to the Pope had been uttered, but they did not agree as to what the words were. Defense Attorney Fausto Gullo, himself a Communist and former Minister for Justice, pleaded: "Are we going to judge her as we would a sunset, according to our momentary emotions? Gullo quoted from Dante...
...sport cars, in offices and boudoirs, at smart restaurants and resorts. It shows them two-timing and double-crossing, ladling out flattery, dishing up scandal. It portrays in particular the Mitchell family-a brilliant, middle-aged publisher (Paul McGrath), his selfish daughter, his muddled son, and his wife Laura (Dorothy Stickney), who is clumsy and crushed in a world at once beyond and beneath her. But Laura ends up a kind of worm who turns and, when her family come to grief, becomes its strongest member...
...money to start it, Hecht formed Parents Institute Inc., and got a $325,000 grant from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Fund by agreeing to assign control of his company to four universities (Yale, Columbia, Iowa and Minnesota). The odd partnership gave canny Publisher Hecht academic alliances which brought an impressive array of famous educators to Parents' masthead as "advisory editors." It also brought the schools a golden flow of income from Parents and a handful of new magazines. By 1949, when Publisher Hecht finally bought up control of Parents Institute, the colleges had already taken out substantial profits...