Word: rizzoli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Return of Don Camillo (Rizzoli; I.F.E.), a sequel to The Little World of Don Camillo (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953), continues the slapstick story of Fernandel, a quirky priest who talks both to and back to God. and Gino Cervi, a hot-tempered Communist mayor whose redness seems no deeper than that of a radish...
...Italian fascist living in exile across the Swiss border, had tried to peddle these letters to various publishers. None would bite, for they had been denounced as fakes and forgeries by everybody involved, including Winston Churchill and Alcide de Gasperi. But such denunciations did not deter wealthy Publisher Angelo Rizzoli, who is Italy's most unclassifiable political figure. Signer Rizzoli publishes Candido, a savagely satirical weekly edited by right-wing Novelist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camillo) Guareschi; Oggi, a slightly milder weekly with Monarchist politics; L'Europeo, which leans slightly left of center. To round matters...
Berlitz English. Neither was Rizzoli deterred when Novelist Guareschi published one of the fake letters involving ex-Premier de Gasperi and got a year's prison sentence for libel (TIME, April 26). Publisher Rizzoli bought a batch of the letters for a down payment of $20,000 and began spraying them across the front pages of Oggi...
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...
Flowers of St. Francis (Angelo-Rizzoli; Joseph Burstyn). Several episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi woven into a cinematic garland by Director Roberto Rossellini (TIME...