Word: marinotti
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...trade is rayon textiles. He is head man of gigantic and world-famed Snia Viscosa (40,000 employees). He signs himself "Torri" (Towers), he explained, because he has built three towering structures: an office building in Milan and factories near Venice and in Spain. His real name is Franco Marinotti, and his personal income is around $2,000,000 a year. At 60, Marinotti looks a bit like a short and overweight Daddy Warbucks. He has painted all his life...
...youth, Marinotti worked in Russia for an Italian textile firm and exhibited annually in Czarist Moscow. Back in Italy, he made a secret of his art, concentrated on being a tycoon...
...make a mystery of his ivory tower until now? Well, says Marinotti, "an industrialist who paints is apt to be looked on by others as a man who is distracted from his own work. However, once a person can show the work he has accomplished...