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...Rome, while waiting near the Chamber of Deputies to pick up Italy's Communist boss, Palmiro Togliatti, Chauffeur Reclus Monari suddenly became the richest Communist chauffeur in the country. He was named winner of a 54 million lire ($86,400) football pool. Said Monari: "I'll certainly give several millions to the party and a handsome gift to Comrade Togliatti...
Great Expectations. In Caravaggio, Italy, after being robbed of 130,000 lire ($208), Mrs. Giacomina Cerutti received an envelope containing 5,000 lire ($8) and an unsigned note: "Dear Madam, it is I who stole your purse. Be assured you will get your money back . . . Will send you 5,000 lire ($8) monthly...
...still stood, hidden by whitewash, on the church wall. Maddalena Liandru herself was shot down on her way to visit her husband in jail soon after his capture. Her sister's lover, Salvatore Patteri, whose sudden affluence may or may not have come from a 2,000,000-lire reward paid for Liandru, was killed a short time later as he staggered home from a drunken spending spree. Six more listed victims followed Salvatore; all were shot through the head...
...farmers seeking cheap labor. The children are brought to the Piazza del Duomo, where they wait while their parents bargain. The farmers take a look at the boys, sometimes test a muscle, go back to bargaining. For a promising boy they will pay the parents 6,000 lire (about $10) and a few bushels of wheat for a year's work. When the bargain is struck, the boy goes off to the farm. His family may visit...
...those once coined by the Royal Mint. With five helpers, the pair had turned out the coins at a rate of 1,000 a day from gold exactly as pure as that used in the real thing. Each coin had netted them a tidy profit of some 1,750 lire ($2.80). How did they make their profit...