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...among the 300 was Marshal Bado-glio's son, Mario. Another was Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 84, Italy's member of the Big Four who made the Versailles Treaty. The onetime Premier withdrew from public life in 1925, abandoned even the teaching of law when the Fascists asked an oath of loyalty in 1931. Orlando had been living quietly near the Porta Pia, just happened to be passing...
...Petacci family prospered, moved to a palace on Monte Mario. Claretta's physician brother became well-to-do. Claretta's mother became unofficial autocrat of Italian movies. Her sister Maria pleased the Duce, too. She became a radio and film star...
...appeared with a U.S. corps commander. Diffidently, without pride, General Molinero approached the car and spoke in Italian. An interpreter translated: General Molinero and his troops did not want to fight. But there was a difficulty. Within the city, in the royal palace, was one General Mario Arisio, an unpredictable fellow who also commanded troops. For this Arisio, General Molinero could not speak...
...Comers. Nonetheless Banker Giannini has for years been stocking the executive floor of his bank with likely younger men who may one day succeed him. His taciturn lawyer son Lawrence Mario (48), who has been Bank of America president since 1936, has always been frail, lately has spent long periods away from his desk. Last year, when A.P. bought California's Pacific Finance Co., he made its go-getting, 50-year-old president Francis Baer vice chairman of the bank's board, and West Coast financiers buzzed that A. P. bought the company...
...Answers. Whoever inherits the empire, Baer and Wente make a logical team to work in harness under the brilliant, ailing Mario and his indestructible father. Baer, the consumer finance expert, is the perfect answer to A. P.'s booming small-loan business (the bank had 3,000,000 borrowers averaging loans of $300 apiece between 1935 and 1941). Wente has worked in a score of the small country and city banks that are now cashing in for A. P., knows farm, livestock and small .business problems. As his boss puts it, "he knows a lot more about banking than...