Word: lollies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arts, who, among other things, presented the first performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre in 1913, with choreography by Nijinsky. Though he confessed that, because of a lot of schedule conflicts, Friday's program (L'apres-midi d'un faune and Jeux by Debussy: Scythian Suite 'Ala and Lolli' by Prokoflev: and Stravinksy's Les Noces) was not one of his more daring adventures. Thomas was justifiably excited about it: "...the figure of that man is monumental. It's just unbelievable the number of things he brought off!... The world needs more impressarios, not more composers and players...
Bringing the Rothschilds and Rockefellers together was a personal triumph for Ettore Lolli, president of R.A.S. Lolli, 61, emigrated from fascist Italy to the U.S. in 1940. After the war, he became the Manhattan representative of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Italy's big government-owned bank. Called back to Rome in 1957 to be groomed for the bank's top job, he also became a director of IBEC. Lolli eventually found himself blocked by the Socialists in the government; they wanted a member of their own party to head the bank. So he left Lavoro...
Ripe for the Venture. The question was, what fund? Lolli's answer was to interest IBEC in helping form a new Italian fund. Later the Rothschilds, with whom Lolli had been involved in forming a British merchant bank, offered their backing, and 3-R was born. The chairman of the fund will be Evelyn de Rothschild, 38. the polo-playing contender for leadership of the British house of Rothschild...