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Strewn around one Italian tank were papers that belonged to Captain Aldo Corbelli. One was a month's pay slip for 3,630 lire. A handbill advertised the Italian edition of Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. A letter from the captain's girl, Mardella, ended "I never stop longing for you." Aldo Corlelli's body lay in the tank...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the Pope Pius XI prize for astronomy, totaling 50,000 lire, about $2,500, according to an United Press bulletin from the Vatican City...
Entrepreneur of this quadruple play was an Italian count (who likes to be called Mr.), debonair Giovanni Naselli. Born in Manhattan 45 years ago, and hence a U.S. citizen, the count is no Fascist although he spent about ten years making rayon and lire in the Rome branch of the huge Società Generate Italiana della Viscosa, a world leader in cheap rayon manufacture. In 1933 he went to Mexico City, there started his own rayon twisting plant, Cia. Nacional de Artisela. S.A., whose 25,000 spindles now twist 60% of Mexico's rayon yarn and make...
Meanwhile, not only had Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey been emboldened (with sardonic Russia's encouragement, too) to stand off the Axis, but the war itself, the Germans' war, was increasingly unpopular in Italy. Last week's war budget of 14,000,000,000 lire with 700,000,000 additional for home relief, is not an immense sum in real money (total: $735,000,000). But it is a lot to a poor country where a soldier's wife gets only 1.20 lire (five cents) per day allowance and bread costs 1.50 lire a pound. General Papagos...
...Bologna, fat, flush Tenor Beniamino Gigli found he had won the weekly Italian national lottery. He promptly split the 11,000 lire ($555.50) prize among a friend and the three waiters whose shield numbers he had played...