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29th September 1957 - Meeting of vintage cars in Campione d'Italia, upon Lake Lugano.
Cover by Walter Molino.

23rd September 1945 - In Milan, a young lady throws his baby to a pedestrian, just before of being run over. The young mother died, the baby survived.
From May 1945 to March 1946, La Domenica del Corriere was given the name La Domenica degli Italiani (The Sunday of Italians).
Unsigned cover (presumably by Rino Ferrari).

28th October 1945 - In Bologna (Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy), a car is stolen with a 4-year old kid aboard. The kid was abandoned in the periphery.
Cover by Rino Ferrari.

4th November 1945 - A truck carrying people back from a wedding goes off the road and falls down in the Emilian Apennines. Twelve people died in the accident.
Back cover by Rino Ferrari.

23rd December 1945 - A bull, run away from the city slaughterhouse, attacks a jeep in Rome.
Cover by Rino Ferrari.

18th August 1946 - A car goes off the test track on the roof of an U.S. factory and falls in the road. The driver died.
Cover by Walter Molino.

7th April 1950 - In Badajoz (Estremadura, Spain), a bus is bumped by a truck and goes off the road, but its falling is stopped by two big trees.
Back cover by Achille Beltrame.

19th October 1952 - In a crossroad in Milan, a motorbike is caught between the motor unit and the trailer of a long vehicle. A young man, a lady and her son were on the motorbike: nobody survived.
Cover by Giorgio De Gaspari.

31st March 1957 - In Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige, Northern Italy), a man stops the thief who was stealing his car by jumping on the hood.
Cover by Walter Molino.

4th August 1957 - Road accident for Belgium's former King Leopold III and wife Lilian, Princess of Réthy, coming back from Cortina: they are helped by Italian racing champion Nino Farina.
Cover by Walter Molino.

2nd March 1958 - In Val Giudicaria (Trentino-Alto Adige, Northern Italy), a tractor goes off the road and the driver saves his life by hanging on a tree.
Back cover by Walter Molino.

8th June 1958 - In a small town near Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige, Northern Italy), a tractor goes off the road and bursts into a kitchen.
Cover by Walter Molino.

16th November 1958 - In Val di Non (Trentino, Northern Italy), a car is stopped by a brown bear lying down in the middle of the road.
Cover by Walter Molino.

8th February 1959 - Two little sisters on their sledge are killed by a bus in a little town near Bolzano (Trentino-Alto Adige, Northern Italy).
Back cover by Walter Molino.

29th March 1959 - A horse, bumped by a motorbike, attacks an utility car in a small town near Treviso (Veneto, Northern Italy).
Cover by Walter Molino.

24th May 1959 - A man starts his truck, but he doesn't see her 2-year old daughter sitting on the bumper and goes on for five kilometres. The little girl wasn't injured.
Cover by Walter Molino.

15th November 1959 - Five children are killed by a car near Turin.
Back cover by Walter Molino.

16th April 1961 - The building of the underground in Milan.
Cover by Walter Molino.

26th November 1961 - The risks of two-way roads.
Cover by Walter Molino.

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Selected covers of Italian weekly newsmagazine La Domenica del Corriere.

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La Domenica del Corriere (The Sunday of the Corriere) was a weekly newsmagazine whose first issue was published on 8th January 1899. Its name was after the eminent Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera (The courier of the evening). La Domenica del Corriere was the most popular Italian newsmagazine from its beginning to the 1960s.
Above: cover of the first issue, by Achille Beltrame, about a dramatic snow storm in Montenegro.

Achille Beltrame

Walter Molino
Italian graphics and painters Achille Beltrame (until the 1930s) and Walter Molino (from the late 1940s to the 1960s) were the most popular authors of covers for La Domenica del Corriere.

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