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Travail of a Prince. In their trouble they turned where they would have turned in the Middle Ages: to the local overlords, the Massimo family. Its present representative is curly-headed, witty young Prince Vittorio Massimo. When Hannibal wiped out the Roman armies in Apulia at the Battle of Cannae, the Romans entrusted their fortunes to one Fabius Maximus, later known as Cunctator-the Delayer, because he made Hannibal chase him around Italy for eight years. He was Vittorio's ancestor. Now that the Arsolians brought him their troubles, Vittorio realized that something just as bad as Hannibal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE WATER OF ARSOLI | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Guest conductor: Massimo Freccia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...High Cost. In Milan, Italy, Massimo D'Amico took one look at the check for his dinner, drew his revolver, demanded a reduction, got none, shot himself dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 20, 1947 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...JEAN H. MASSIMO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...late Don Jaime, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, a famed diamond necklace was finally up for sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess of Austria, and 63-year-old Marie Beatrice Therese Charlotte, Princess of Massimo. The necklace: a riviere of 29 stones with 13 pendants which the city of Paris presented to Queen Marie Antoinette of France and which adorned her throat before the guillotine severed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Queen's Necklace | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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