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...Body on the Sand. The story be gan last April, when the body of plump, pretty Wilma Montesi, 21, was found on the seashore sands of Ostia, near Rome, clad only in a blouse and a pair of silk panties embroidered with teddy bears (TIME, Feb. 15). Police declared that Wilma had died by accidental drowning. Months later, brash young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman...
...Montagna di San Bartolomeo, one of Rome society's brightest luminaries. The hunting lodge was run by the St. Hubert Club, whose membership list included the Pope's personal physician, high Vatican lay officials, and Piero Piccioni, jazz-pianist son of Scelba's Foreign Minister. Wilma was allegedly seen in a car like young Piccioni's black Alfa Romeo just before her death. His chief informants, said Muto, were two girls who had participated in the dope parties...
Enter La Caglio. One of the girls was pretty, well-groomed Anna Maria Moneta Caglio. She took the stand to back up Muto's charges, but her words painted a picture of favoritism and official corruption with ramifications reaching far beyond the death of Wilma Montesi...
First Suspicion. In a cool, well-modulated voice, she explained that two days before Wilma's death, Ugo ordered her to go back to Milan. "When I asked him why, he said that he had a hunting date in Capocotto with Piero Piccioni." Three days later she returned to Rome, and she and Ugo drove down to the hunting lodge. There the gamekeeper's wife remarked that she had seen Wilma's body and was surprised that it was not swollen or battered. Anna Maria Caglio felt a sudden suspicion. She thought back to a time three...
...percent increase over last year's funds has raised the amount of available scholarship money to $83,000 next year, Dean of Instruction Wilma A. Kerby-Miller said. This is part of a four-year trend, she added. In 1950-1951, there was $47,000 in the scholarship fund...