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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Latin Passports. Brother Attilio, returning to Britain as Alfredo's replacement, was promptly sentenced to six months as a pimp. So Carmello and Eugene ran the business from Belgium; using Brazilian and Cuban passports, they traveled from Rome to Paris to Vienna, recruiting new girls. A typical example was pretty Belgian Marie Vernaecke, who was set up in a Mayfair flat, married to a complaisant Englishman to qualify for British citizenship; she earned the brothers around $5,600 a month. Unfortunately, Belgian police caught Carmello and Eugene in a nightclub just as they were closing a deal with...
Last year De Henriquez got government permission to house his mushrooming stockpile in three abandoned army barracks in southeast Rome. To move it all from Trieste is fast becoming a logistical feat worthy of Hannibal himself. Last week his rented Roman villa was stuffed with incoming crates. He planned to fly some of his airplanes down under their own power. His chief problem: how to man and sail his naval destroyer around Italy, and to find a place to moor it when it arrived...
Died. Mario de Bernardi, 65, Italian aviator who, in a little red Macchi-Fiat seaplane, won the Schneider Cup in 1926, breaking Lieut. Jimmy Doolittle's record with an average 246 m.p.h.; of a heart attack; in Rome. Once known in the U.S. as the "Flying Fascist," De Bernardi was a World War I ace (nine enemy planes), flew experimental jets as early as 1940, in recent years put all his savings into the development of a two-cylinder, 40-h.p. single-seater not much bigger than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard...
Giuseppe Cardinal Sarto, Patriarch of Venice, summoned to Rome to help elect a new Pope after the death of Pope Leo XIII, left his desk strewn with papers, borrowed enough money for a ticket, and started for the station. His flock blocked the path. "Bless us once more," they cried. "Come back soon." Cardinal Sarto stretched out his arms. "Dead or alive," he said, "I shall come back...
Died. Alfred di Lelio, 77, Rome restaurateur known as "the King of Fettuccine," who-under a spotlight, with house lights dark and violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine...