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Such scenes were being enacted nightly last week around Milan's famed Cathedral Square and in Genoa, Como and Rome. "Klaxon girls," as the Italian press calls them, are the latest product of Italy's industrial boom, and they may revolutionize the peninsula's oldest profession...
Klaxon girls, though willing to accommodate pedestrians, prefer motorists-not only because in Italy a car is an assurance of affluence, but also because, as one girl said, "you don't have to take them back where you found them." Largely self-employed, the most successful of Milan klaxoners take in as much as $160 nightly, charging about $20 for a ride to a 45-minute assignation in hotel, pension or apartment. Some, starting with a down payment on a tiny Fiat 600, have worked up to Alfa Romeos, Lancias and Fords equipped with bar, reclining seats, recorded music...
...Milan Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini has an avocation that brought him nothing but grief in the past year. He fancies himself a talent scout and keeps his ears, heart and purse open for promising young operatic divas. His most notable find: sulphurous Soprano Maria Callas, 36, whom Meneghini. now 65. discovered, had trained under Italy's best voice cultivators, persuaded to diet off 70 Ibs. down to a svelte 135. Meneghini's biggest mistake, as it turned out. was to marry Maria; they are now legally separated after ten years of marriage, and she spends many unoperatic moments with...
...president of P. Lorillard Co. from 1942 to 1952, board chairman the following three years, a proponent, in his 49 years with the company, of mild cigarettes and soft-sell advertising (including the 1942 Old Gold slogan: "For a treat instead of a treatment"); of a heart attack; in Milan, Italy...
...Mediterranean ports, "Ari" and Maria went ashore for dinner with Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace. Next day Christina steamed off across the azure waters for Capri, and from there she was bound for Venice, where Maria would presumably debark to keep a recording date in Milan, while Sir Winston and Lady Churchill were slated to come aboard...