In a 1968 letter to Boris Pregel, President of the American Division of WAAS, Caresse Crosby, an American patron of the arts, publisher and inventor of the modern bra, suggests that an Italian castle she had acquired near Rome might become the headquarters of the World Academy. While nothing came of her offer for Castello Rocca Sinibalda (pictured above) to become the headquarters of WAAS, it’s a fascinating look into the colorful characters that surrounded the organization at the time — visionaries, socialites and eccentrics.
