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...Then-despite the encrusted structure and traditions of the Vatican-his heart and brain will become the church's heart and brain, and his past may well prove a poor way of judging his future. After all, no one in 1958 suspected that the amiable Patriarch of Venice, Angelo Roncalli, was going to change the course of history...
...John's white-painted bedroom, keeping watch with his doctors over the coma-stricken body on the simple brass bed, were the Pope's brothers and sister from Bergamo, and Monsignor Loris Capovilla, his secretary and confidant. And as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli clung to the edge of life at the age of 81, men were already attempting to measure the greatness of this 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome...
...Teuber is a highly competent Deputy: rigidly controlled, beautifully articulate. At times I found him a bit too conscientiously odious; Lord Angelo, I suspect, should not pick his teeth and ears or twitch his mouth quite so often. One must preserve the distinction between heartache and heartburn...
...surface. "Let me understudy the leading man," he said wickedly. Undermine would have been a better word. When Measure for Measure opened?with people like John Gielgud and Terence Rattigan in the audience, for the O.U.D.S. was as important then as now?guess who was striding the boards as Angelo.- Binky Beaumont of H. M. Tennent Ltd., London's most powerful theatrical producer, was also there. He told Richard to stay alive and look him up when his Oxford and R.A.F. days were done...
Minor Disagreement. Could he fight? The syndicate hired veteran Trainer Angelo Dundee to turn the amateur into a pro. "I smoothed Cassius out and put some snap in his punches," says Dundee. "I got him down off his dancing toes so he could hit with power." Says Clay: "Dundee gave me the jab. But the rest is me. What changed the most was my own natural ability." Either way, what happened next was a surprise. "If anyone had told me a year ago that Cassius would develop into an international figure," says Tobaccoman Cutchins. "I would have said...