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...state's Industrial Welfare Commission (1913), helped draft the state's first minimum-wage law, became Bishop of Kansas City in 1939, headed a committee which revised (1941) the Catholic version of the New Testament, was given the personal rank of archbishop in 1954; in Milan, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...Borgia, or even Romulus and Remus (said one: "Greek twins''). None knew the boiling point of water, which in Italy is a simple 100°C. One was unable to name a single Italian wine-her brave try: "Champagne." Without congratulating the winner, Nives Zegna, 19, of Milan, the Vatican's eminent Osservatore Romano editorialized: "The attempt to ennoble the beauty contest, to demonstrate that these feminine fairs are different from horse shows by virtue of God's gift of intelligence, was shipwrecked on the beach at Rimini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beauty, Right & Wrong | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Dino Gentili, 55, is a rich exporter-importer who has one of the most grandiose homes in Milan, a gilded opera box at La Scala, a villa at Portofino, three racy sports cars, and eight companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Double-Dealer | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...been booming, though Gentili has been blacklisted by the U.S., and the Italian government refuses to grant him import or export licenses. He has built a fortune by arranging deals between China and Italian suppliers. Through Gentili they ship textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and other nonstrategic items, although the Milan right-wing daily, La Patria, charged that Contact Man Muratori is "a notorious trafficker in strategic materials to the Soviet bloc." Gentili repays the Reds doubly for his virtual monopoly by pouring much of his profit into the treasury of the Communist-lining Italian Socialist Party of his good friend Pietro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Double-Dealer | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...Unita, Rome's // Paese and Paese Sera and Sicily's L'Ora di Palermo survive. Even they have lost from 30% to 45% of their circulation, and L'Unita is considering folding two of its four main regional editions, leaving those in Rome and Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Unpopular Press | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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