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...Italian city of Turin completed an experiment in art promotion that might well give ideas to other cities. On the Via Roma (Turin's Fifth Avenue), 240 shopkeepers agreed to exhibit paintings and sculptures in their windows along with their regular wares. Italy's top artists were invited to participate, and almost all of them did. In two weeks, some 600,000 people, many of whom had never set foot in an art gallery, saw the show. They bought 70 paintings, at prices ranging from 30,000 to 1,000,000 lire...
Elsewhere the authorities found other caches: under an electric crane in Turin's Fiat steel mill, 29 light machine guns and other arms; in a field near the Milan railway line, three Sten and five Bren guns, 80 grenades, etc.; in a zinc coffin buried under the sports field of an auto plant near Milan, one mortar, one small antiaircraft gun, three Bren guns...
Italy's Giorgio de Chirico is the grandpa of a lot of enigmatic modern painting. His empty squares, staring arcades and twisted mannikins have become the common stage properties of surrealism. But De Chirico himself long ago abandoned surrealism for candy-box neoclassicism. So when Turin's Fiat motor corporation wanted to celebrate its golden anniversary, De Chirico seemed just the man to help out with a portrait of the 1950 Fiat...
...Degrees. In 1898, Italy's King Umberto I agreed to have the relic photographed. Secondo Pia, a photographer of Turin, was given the job. While developing the plate, he reported: "Suddenly I was so filled with fear that I almost fainted. For there grew plainly visible on the plate the face and body of a man whose head was covered with blood, whose wrists carried stigmata, whose expression was one of untold majesty...
Near war's end, Blandino was clapped into a Turin jail by Italian partisans, released after a year. He went to Switzerland and this year returned to Italy. He re-established contacts with ex-servicemen and chaplains of Mussolini's Republican Army and with the neo-Fascist Movimento Italiano Femminile (Italian Women's Movement), to whom he propounded his idea: revive the Mercedarian tradition for liberation of Italy's 20 war criminals convicted by Allied tribunals, and 1,600 sentenced by Italian courts. Embittered ex-servicemen, theological students, relatives of prisoners gave him support-offers...