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...Body on the Sand. The story be gan last April, when the body of plump, pretty Wilma Montesi, 21, was found on the seashore sands of Ostia, near Rome, clad only in a blouse and a pair of silk panties embroidered with teddy bears (TIME, Feb. 15). Police declared that Wilma had died by accidental drowning. Months later, brash young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman...
Neither Italy's own political convulsions nor Berlin's Four-Power Conference made the splashiest headlines in Rome last week. Everyone from right to left and from high to low was far more interested in a burning local question: How did Wilma Montesi die? At first glance, it seemed she must have drowned. An attractive, 21-year-old girl, Wilma Montesi was found dead on the beach at Ostia, Rome's somewhat more elegant version of Coney Island, more than a year ago. The young brickworker who found her skirtless body was momentarily fascinated by the Teddy...
...Editor Talks. Seven months later, Attualita, a sensational new Italian picture magazine, hit the stands with Wilma's face on the cover under a broad band which said: "The Truth Behind the Death of Wilma Montesi." She had not drowned, said Attualita; she had died of overindulgence in opium taken at one of Roman society's most exclusive hunting clubs. Last week Attualita's editor, mustached, 24-year-old Silvano Muto, was haled into court and ordered to explain his charges. Threatened with a jail sentence unless he talked, Muto let go with an explosion of names...
...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...
...Reds: Ivor Montagu, British film producer; Dr. Eugene Aubel, French chemist; Furio Diaz, mayor of Leghorn. Pinks: Jean Lurgat, French artist; Dr. Max Cosyns, a leading Belgian atomic scientist; Hans Erni, Swiss painter; Luigi Cacciatore, a leader of the Italian Socialist Party; Dr. Mario Montesi, Communal Councilor of Rome; Giuseppina Palumbo, Italian Socialist Senator; Professor Mario Oliviero Olivo, Italian specialist in anatomy and histology...