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Forty-five percent of the Radcliffe student body made dean's list last term, Mrs. Wilma Kerby-Miller, dean of instruction, announced yesterday...
Neither Italy's own political convulsions nor Berlin's Four-Power Conference made the splashiest headlines in Rome last week. Everyone from right to left and from high to low was far more interested in a burning local question: How did Wilma Montesi die? At first glance, it seemed she must have drowned. An attractive, 21-year-old girl, Wilma Montesi was found dead on the beach at Ostia, Rome's somewhat more elegant version of Coney Island, more than a year ago. The young brickworker who found her skirtless body was momentarily fascinated by the Teddy...
...Editor Talks. Seven months later, Attualita, a sensational new Italian picture magazine, hit the stands with Wilma's face on the cover under a broad band which said: "The Truth Behind the Death of Wilma Montesi." She had not drowned, said Attualita; she had died of overindulgence in opium taken at one of Roman society's most exclusive hunting clubs. Last week Attualita's editor, mustached, 24-year-old Silvano Muto, was haled into court and ordered to explain his charges. Threatened with a jail sentence unless he talked, Muto let go with an explosion of names...
...principal informants, said Muto, were the daughter of a famed Milanese attorney and a onetime artist's model who had seen Wilma at orgiastic parties at the St. Hubert Club, an aristocratic shooting lodge located on a game preserve formerly belonging to the royal family. The lodge is 15 miles from the beach at Ostia...
...having published false and adulterated news." The press of all parties, and in particular the Communist L'Unità, made the most of the scandal. It had everything: decadent aristocracy, orgies, playgirls, dope, and even a mystery-the still unsolved story of what happened to poor Wilma Montesi...