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...disappearance: it was cold-blooded murder by four of his subordinates. The Defense Department's story was backed up point by point by the confessions of three of the accused men and by the recovery of Holohan's poisoned and bullet-riddled body. The fourth man, Lieut. Aldo Icardi, called the ringleader in the plot by the other three, flatly denied his guilt, stuck to his story that the major had died at the hands of German and Fascist troops...
Three Steps North (W. Lee Wilder; United Artists) wastes not only up & coming Lloyd Bridges and its Italian backgrounds and supporting cast (Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi), but also a promising melodramatic idea. Bridges is an ex-G.I. who has served time for black-marketeering and goes back to dig up his loot. The site is a G.I. cemetery, and the nearby town is full of schemers trying to trip Bridges up for reasons of their own. They thicken the plot with so much intrigue that it curdles into the kind of confusion best followed with a score card listing...
Separated: Palmiro Togliatti, 58, Italian Communist boss, and his motherly wife, Communist Senator Rita Montagnana, after 27 years of marriage. Last year when the Togliattis left their deluxe apartment on the left bank of the Tiber, Rita went to live in Turin with their son Aldo, 26, and Palmiro moved out to a smart suburban villa in Rome. Last week they got a legal separation, which, however, does not permit them to remarry. Rumor said Togliatti might get a divorce outside Italy. The other woman: his personal secretary, buxom Communist Deputy Leonilde lotti, 31, with whom he has been keeping...
...exhibition at Rome's fashionable Obelisco Gallery was stirring up some three-alarm excitement in Italian art circles last week. In a series of lurid, explicitly painted canvases, enterprising Artist Aldo Pagliacci, 38, had set fire to six of Rome's most famed and revered churches including St. Peter's itself...
...didn't tell the artists what to paint," explained Dr. Aldo Alberti, Esso's contest director. "We just gave them hints. After all, oil is part of every landscape. A gasoline pump to the modern eye is like a tree...