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...five machines stood, rectangular, silver-green, silent. They were obviously not thinking about anything at all as Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan raised his hand to bless them...
...Giovanni Battista Meneghini, a millionaire building-materials tycoon and bon vivant more than twice her age. He wooed her in courtly fashion, and in the white-haired Meneghini, fat, unloved Maria found love for the first time. In 1949 they were married...
...Ghost at Noon. To give his lovely but simple wife the comfortable life she wants, Riccardo has put aside his ambition to become a dramatist and taken on a movie job. He has even bought a car and is in debt. But his first script is a success, Producer Battista has given him a new and more important one to do, and the drab days in a furnished room in Rome seem well behind. It is typical of Author Moravia that conjugal hell lies just a step away from marital contentment. For at about this point Emilia takes to sleeping...
...bedside, the Pope made a point of receiving his old friend and adviser, Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini-a man who, if he had a red hat, would be one of the top candidates for the papacy. This week Msgr. Montini was consecrated Archbishop of Milan, and when His Holiness presented the archbishop-elect a pectoral cross, a gift not normally made until after the ceremony, the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano noted this demonstration of "very particular benevolence." Montini's consecration was cli maxed by a four-minute recorded speech of affection and blessing by the Pope...
Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, Pius' most trusted collaborator, who throughout the Pope's illness has been doing more and more of the Pontiff's work, was appointed to the vital Archbishopric of Milan, succeeding the late Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster. At the same time, cardinals and bishops received new, sharp instructions designed to remedy what the Pope regards as creeping weaknesses in the church. Among the Pope's chief complaints...