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...first her death was dismissed as accidental drowning, then came hints of murder. Suddenly sparked by a criminal libel suit, a vast scandal flared up, involving sex, narcotics, and playboys with high connections. The trial produced lurid accounts of the ringleader, one Ugo Montagna, whose claim to be a Sicilian marquis proved to be bogus but whose talent in another direction was undeniable: despite his luxurious way of life, he paid little income tax, and got away with it. Also involved was young (32) Jazz Pianist Piero Piccioni, son of the Foreign Minister. In a letter made public, one girl...
Among the dubbed Buses, these are currently the favorites: CJ Silvana Mangano (bust 36 in., waist 25 in., hips 35 in.), known as "the Italian Rita Hayworth." really looks more like Ingrid Bergman. The 24-year-old daughter of an Englishwoman and a Sicilian railroad conductor, she stands about 5 ft. 6 in., weighs about 128 Ibs., has brown eyes and chestnut hair. Picked as Miss Rome of 1946, she went on to a bit part in a film and a job modeling clothes, was finally offered the role of the girl who gets attacked by the sadist in Bitter...
Died. Austin Rosario ("Iron Glove") Maceo, 66, illiterate, Sicilian-born gambling czar of Galveston, Texas (pop. 66,568), which he helped make one of the widest-open towns in the U.S.; after a long illness; in Galveston. With his late brother Sam ("Velvet Glove"), Maceo became a Prohibition rumrunner, afterwards branched out with plush gambling clubs, raked in as much as $4,000,000 a year. In 1951, state legislators investigated his illegal empire, but could never get tolerant Galveston police to put Iron Glove in jail...
...Montagna, it reported, was the son of poor Sicilian parents, spent the '30s shuttling between Rome and Sicily and being charged with various offenses ranging from passing bad checks to printing cards identifying himself falsely as a lawyer or accountant. He always got off without a day in jail. By 1940 he had settled in Rome with the means and habits of a multimillionaire. During Mussolini days he had a house "where he frequently invited women of doubtful morality, with the apparent aim of satisfying the libidinous desires of many high-ranking personalities." With the German occupation, his guests...
...their ties with the Vatican, but that is not enough for Don Sturzo; he objects to any relationship at all. Last week Don Luigi paid a rare visit to the Senate, where he has a lifetime seat, to speak for Mario Scelba, whom Don Luigi had taken off a Sicilian share farm, educated and launched into Italian politics. Weak and chilled by the drafts in the big Senate chamber, the old priest asked for a blanket to warm him: "If you don't want me to die, you had better give me at least a blanket." Even with...