Cortina d'Ampezzo Trentino-Alto Adige announced that they are to commission a feasibility study to build a new line between Calalzo, Cortina and Toblach. Cortina has attracted many distinguished guests, often inspiring them in their creative work. They include the Italian novelists Dino Buzzati (1906–1972), author of "The Tartar Steppe", Goffredo Parise (1929–1986) and Fernanda Pivano (1917–2009). Ernest Hemingway, author of "A Farewell to Arms", also arrived in the area in 1918 as a young ambulance driver. Other notable visitors include John Ball (1818–1889), the Irish mountaineer and naturalist who climbed Monte Pelmo in 1857, the Italian mountaineers Emilio Comici (1901–1940), Angelo Dibona
Margaret Allan (racing driver) brief return to competition, in the Circuit of Ireland rally in 1950. Despite having been absent from competitive motorsport for well over a decade, Jennings won the Ladies' Prize for the event. During the Second World War she served as an ambulance driver, and was later posted to Bletchley Park. There, she worked in the "intelligence de-coding centre," based in Hut 4. After the war Jennings became a journalist and was "Vogue" magazine's motoring correspondent for many years in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as providing road test articles for "The Motor", "Autocar", and other motoring magazines. In 1937