Word: rospigliosi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the killers are foredoomed by their past and have the apathy of the doomed. But once in a while the bravado of a political prisoner creates drama. From Rome, TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi reported one such drama: Into the courtroom of Rome's old uni versity, where students once faced examiners, strode Peter Koch (an assistant to Rome's chief of police Pietro Caruso), handcuffed but smiling. He took his place behind the wooden rail of the prisoner's dock. His tall figure with its small, cruel head was momentarily silhouetted against the light...
...traitor, guilty of collaboration with the enemy. ... It orders the sentence to be published in the official gazetteer and in the Roman press."' When the judge finished, Koch smiled. Newsmen crowded around him. He recognized acquaintances and some of his brother officers. Said Koch to TIME Correspondent William Rospigliosi, whom he had interrogated while Rospigliosi was a political internee: "I am very pleased to see you again. Times have changed, we now smoke American cigarettes...
...Rospigliosi: "The important thing is that you repent and face events with the courage which you are already showing...
...Manhattan's Stork Club, Debutante Lenore Lemmon and oil-wealthy Marian Snowden (Princess) Rospigliosi Reed Dresser had words over Lenore's style of dancing with Marian's Bradley S. Dresser. Blows swung or landed were not tallied, but next morning Lenore and friends got wires from the club announcing: "We do not now or ever want your patronage." ∙ ∙ Four hours after pretty Nancy Golden, who said she was Press Agent Richard Money's secretary, had rented a horse for a ride in Central Park, the riding academy sent out a searching party of cops...