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...first degree conferred went to the oldest University in the western world, the University of Bologna, founded in 1000. In the words of Dr. Rene J. Dubos, "The historical role of Bologna is not limited to having shaped our institutions of higher learning. This most ancient of all universities has also contributed richly and continuously to the history of thought and knowledge...
Died. Joe Bologna, 79, little (5 ft. 1 in.) king of the Wall Street bootblacks; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. In 1896, 18-year-old Giuseppe Bologna left Castel-grande in Italy's southern Apennines, began shining shoes in Manhattan, where bootblacks worked a 15-hr. day and the top ones earned $4 a week. By 1902 Joe had returned to Italy, married, and was back in New York living with his wife and daughter in a $7-a-month apartment on a family food budget of 25? a day. Joe knelt at the feet of bank presidents...
...unanimously in less than 24 hours. Vatican insiders are reconstructing the three voting days of the conclave, with their suspenseful smoke signals, this way: two main groups faced each other, one faction under archconservative Cardinal Ottaviani, the other (including the French cardinals) supporting liberal, reform-minded Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna. In the middle, fitting neither the "political" nor the "pastoral" label completely (since they had ample experience of both kinds), were Roncalli and Patriarch of the Armenians Agagianian. The fact that Agagianian is non-Italian, and too young (63) in the view of some cardinals who would prefer a shorter...
Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro, 66, Archbishop of Bologna, a sailor's son, is a lusty, genial fighter who organized the "flying priest" squads against the Communists. Deeply concerned with social reform, he has a left-wing reputation...
...Romagna region around Bologna, no man was a more generous lender and spender than Giambattista Giuffrè. To thousands of citizens, he was the selfless benefactor whose savings he increased and whose towns he rebuilt. To the Roman Catholic priests and friars whose works he aided, Giuffrè was, in the words of Monsignor Antonio Bergamaschi, Bishop of Montefeltro, "a generous soul open to any welfare initiative." The Vatican made Giuffre a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, and the President of Italy honored him with the title of Commendatore. About the good works-the monasteries and Catholic Action centers...