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...Italian magazine, Oggi, picked up the story of Francesco's 24 years of forlorn wooing, and sudden notoriety succeeded where all the years of defeat had not. Last week Francesco, 49, wrote a letter to the editor confessing that at long last "I have given up, because with women one cannot win." As for Angela, now a spinster of 40, she could not care less. "He didn't appeal to me when he was younger," she said, "and he appeals to me even less now." When told that Francesco had named her his heir, Angela showed a tougher...
Under the hot-breathed headline MY MAN BENITO, 67-year-old Rachele Mussolini scribbled a smoldering account of life and love with il Duce for Italy's weekly Oggi. They met in Dovia when she was a peasant schoolchild, he a substitute teacher. When she was 19, he stormed into her house with a cocked revolver and a disdain for small talk: "I want you to be the mother of my children. I have six shots ready, one for you and five for me, unless you come." She came, lived out of wedlock with him (they were married some...
...Vatican Press Office confirmed reports in the illustrated Italian weekly Oggi that Pope Pius XII had told of having a vision of Jesus Christ during his illness last December. The vision came, said Oggi, while the Pope was saying the prayer Anima Christi, just as he reached the words "In hora mortis mei, voca me" (In the hour of my death, call me). Added the article: "The Holy Father is certain that he saw Jesus and that he was not dreaming." Later Milan's Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest newspaper, reported that the Pope also had heard...
Historians, amateur as well as professional, promptly began to spot gaping holes in Oggi's yarns, which were apparently designed to glorify Mussolini and embarrass the democratic politicians who now govern Italy. The English phrases attributed to Prosemaster Winston Churchill were so wooden that some other newspapers ridiculed them as "Berlitz-learned English." In one letter, "Churchill" referred to himself as Prime Minister at a time when he was still only First Lord of the Admiralty...
Artifacts. When police raided an elegantly furnished apartment outside Milan, they found papers, special inks and pens, lenses and other artifacts of the professional forger, as well as a man who admitted that the letters were fakes. This at last was too much for Publisher Rizzoli. Oggi discontinued the series and beat a feeble retreat. "If the truth about these letters ever comes out," said Oggi self-righteously, "it will be thanks to us, because only Oggi had the nerve to print these letters...