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Powers said he believes Pope Paul will best be remembered for his "very deep, very strong concern for social issues." He noted that as chaplain of the University of Rome in the mid- 20s, Paul--then Father Giovanni Battista Montini--"was very conscious of, and involved in, some of the dominant social issues of the day. That concerned involvement continued to mark his work...
...Giovanni Battista Piranese--Henri Zerner, professor of Fine Arts, Fogg...
...real name was Maria Kalogeropoulos. Born in Manhattan in 1923 of Greek parents, she studied music in Greece-she and her mother were trapped there by the outbreak of World War II. In 1949 she married Giovanni Battista Meneghini, an Italian construction tycoon twice her age. Meneghini sold his business, put Maria on her famous diet and became her manager. He showered her with clusters of jewelry for each new role she sang. But at the Metropolitan Opera, he insisted on receiving her salary in cash before each night's performance. This so enraged Met General Manager Rudolf Bing...
...iron chancellorship and Rockefeller's tight paternal grip. The two leaders had fought first in Kansas over whether Clark could have a Reagan telephone on the floor, then over whether Reagan should be formally invited to address the whole delegation. Rosenbaum vetoed both ideas. Complained Reagan Delegate Vito Battista: "This is like the Gestapo...
...with the republican cause. According to an old tradition, the great sculptor, who was then at work on the Medici tombs, hid in the bell tower of a church on the other side of the Arno. But ten years ago, a memoir was discovered in the handwriting of Giovanni Battista Figiovanni, the prior of San Lorenzo who was in charge of the Medici tombs project. "I saved him from death," the prior wrote of Michelangelo, "and I saved his belongings too." It was in this very room-well hidden by its trap door, but at street level and adequately...