Word: milan
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Jetting to Hell. When Paganini died in 1840, many of these compositions -including the third violin concerto -were tucked away in a bank vault in Milan under the care of the violinist's heirs. Other violinists have been trying to get at them ever since. By last year, all the concertos except the third had been released. It was still held by the Paganini family. Last Christmas, Philips Records, aided by Violinist Henryk Szeryng, finally obtained it after ten years of delicate negotiations...
Once, when he was Archbishop of Paris, the late Pope John XXIII visited Rome to see Pope Pius XII and deliver a report to the papal secretary of state, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini. Afterward, says the Milan newspaper Domenica Del Corriere, Pope John's secretary and protégé Don Angelo Rossi asked what had impressed him most about the trip; was it the audience with His Holiness? "No," was the reply, "I am always calm when I see the Pope. But if there is one personality I stand a little in awe of, that is Monsignor Montini...
...export-import financing is flagging. Italy is in the deepest trouble. Plagued by strikes and absenteeism, industrial production is running 3% lower than last year, while prices are 5% higher. Fiat, the automaker, has placed 8,000 workers on a short week; tiremaking Pirelli is offering workers in the Milan area cash gifts to quit. Zanussi, Italy's biggest electric-appliance manufacturer, plans to lay off 9,420 by year's end. Refrigerator producers reckon that the price of one of their popular models in the U.S. will rise from $89 to $109. The Italian bourse...
...story was pieced together from 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...
Return. After paying a Milan funeral firm $1,280 in cash to transport the body to Spain, "Carlos Maggi" took his seat beside the funeral-van driver for the trip to Perón's closely guarded house in a swank section on the outskirts of Madrid...