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...months ago while 2,000 hand-picked carabinieri scoured Sicily's wind-whipped hills in a vain search for Giuliano, Meldolesi hinted to Italian editors that the celebrated "Robin Hood of Sicily" had invited him to his hideout. Only Editor Edilio Rusconi of Milan's weekly Oggi (Today) fell for Meldolesi's story. Rusconi assigned a top reporter to work with him, paid 800,000 lire (about $1,300) for the promised beat...
Glorified Crime. The Giuliano issue of Oggi was a swift sellout (1,200,000 copies). It had barely hit the streets when the conservative // Tempo accused its rival of "basically indecent" conduct in consorting with a bandit. Embarrassed Minister of Interior Mario Scelba fired Palermo's chief of police, ordered the Mi-Jan police to arrest Meldolesi, Rizza and Editor Rusconi. The charge: "aiding and abetting banditry and glorifying crime...
...home as an artist by Cartoonist Strube started out to paint. Four cars followed with newsmen and photographers. Churchill fled by motorboat and retired to his 15-room suite in the Grand Hotel. Next day he made amends by posing for bathing-suit photographs. (Observed Milan's weekly Oggi: "Churchill has very thin ankles, absolutely disproportionate to his weight . . . Nobody can say Churchill in a bathing suit is very attractive . . .") Then he made arrangements to go on a painting trip in a motorboat. It banged into a pier, had to be repaired before he got aboard...