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LEAFING through the British magazine Country Life one quiet afternoon, a priest of London's Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral was struck by a group of photographs. They showed four panels by Bartolommeo Montagna, a minor master of the late 15th century Venetian school. Two of the panels, representing the Angel and the Virgin of the Annunciation, eventually passed into the collection of New College, Oxford. The other two were known only from watercolor copies; the originals had vanished...
...enough to send the court reporters dashing for the telephones; it includes high lay officials of the Vatican, the son of Italy's Foreign Minister, the head of a great chemical trust, and many other big names. Muto named one prominent Roman, the wealthy, white-haired Marchese Ugo Montagna di San Bartolomeo, as the leader of an international dope-smuggling ring who lured young girls to opium-drenched downfalls. When reporters reached the Milanese attorney's daughter, she calmly admitted that she had indeed once been the marchese's mistress...
...Scandal. Montagna promptly instituted slander proceedings against Editor Muto, who also awaits trial under a 1931 Fascist law for "having published false and adulterated news." The press of all parties, and in particular the Communist L'Unità, made the most of the scandal. It had everything: decadent aristocracy, orgies, playgirls, dope, and even a mystery-the still unsolved story of what happened to poor Wilma Montesi...
...slowdown strike of doctors, nurses and attendants which had begun that morning as a protest against low wages. One of Italy's most famous surgeons. Dr. Pietro Valdoni. worked over Togliatti for 2½ hours while Signorina Iotti and Togliatti's wife, white-haired Rita Montagna, stood in the doorway. Togliatti's Socialist ally, Pietro Nenni. wandered aimlessly about the corridors. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, his face greyer than usual, hurried to the Policlinico. "This," he said grimly as he left, "is the worst possible thing that could have happened...
Divorced. Louis ("Bull") Montana (real name: Lugia Montagna), 44, wrestler and cinemactor; by Mary Poulson Montana; in Los Angeles. Mr. Montana admits his face frightens women and children. Mrs. Montana said she was afraid to live with...