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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Togliatti is married to Rita Montagnana, a former seamstress, who leads Italy's Communist women and is a loyal party workhorse. She is a big, handsome, white-haired, brown-eyed woman. The Togliattis live in the sumptuous residence of a former Fascist minister, but use only a few rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...ideas were under attack in sermons, editorials, posters and street demonstrations. The Christian Family Defense Front sponsored such slogans as: "Beware of saboteurs of the home and family-down with divorce!" which appeared on Italian walls. The church, however, was not Francale's only opponent. Rita Montagnana, wife of Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti, expressed her party's effort to live down its principles: "The majority of women, particularly women of the people, are against divorce." Russia, she pointed out, now put a premium on family stability. Her conclusion on the proposed divorce law: "Why should we Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Aspiration of a Minority | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...inch longer than his Amati, was built by the only U.S.-born member of the 300-year-old European Guild of Violinmakers, a stocky, shy Philadelphian named William Moennig Jr. Moennig also does all the repairing on Efrem Zimbalist's Stradivari violin, Gregor Piatigorsky's Montagnana cello.* Moennig, 40, and his 62-year-old father live and work in a colonial house on Philadelphia's once swank Locust Street, now lined with doctors' offices. The Moennigs sit at benches side by side, poking quietly into ailing old masters with scrapers, knives, gouges, chisels. In a safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Master | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

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