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...various sources last week. It appears that Evita's body arrived in Milan on May 17, 1957, accompanied by Giuseppina Airoldi, a lay sister of the Company of St. Paul. Signora Airoldi believed the body to be that of an Italian woman who had died in Argentina-Maria Maggi, widow of Luigi De Magistris. The body was buried in Lot 86, Garden 41, in Milan's Musocco Cemetery...
Shooting for the parent trade, Nestlé in 1947 bought Maggi, a Swiss company with a $100 million-a-year line of soups and seasonings. In 1960, Nestlé's bosses laid out another $27 million for England's venerable Crosse & Blackwell Ltd., with its 26 soups, preserves, pickles and puddings. Last year the company picked up Italy's Locatelli, which produces cheese, tomato products and meats. Today, Nestlé markets everything from soup to nuts, has 75,000 employees and 180 factories in 34 countries. With annual sales of $1.5 billion, it is the world...
...Needy. Ironically, more and more of the socialites are beginning to stay away from the charity balls that they invented; they lend their names and sometimes buy tickets, but they don't show. Says TV Veteran Maggi McNellis, wife of Art Gallery Owner Clyde Newhouse, and herself one of the busiest charity ball patrons: "When you get there, you look at your program. Then you look around the room for the people listed and you don't see them. I've been on ball committees and haven't gone myself." Says Party Arranger Elsa Maxwell...
...learned that for the sixth time she had been chosen one of America's 14 best-dressed women by Manhattan's Fashion Academy, along with such well-tailored veterans as Broadway Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, a four-time choice, Mrs. Henry Ford (three times), and Radio-TV Burbler Maggi McNellis (eight times). A newcomer: Opera Diva Maria Callas...
...people think of balls they are apt to think they are selfish-but this one is for a most worthy cause"), and ended her 25-minute show with a plug for a midtown restaurant ("It's wonderful for hand-holding"). Though not quite as sure of herself as Maggi McNellis and Jinx Falkenburg, Newcomer Sloan is already as determinedly chatty as any veteran lady of the airways...