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Giacomo Lercaro, 61, Archbishop of Bologna, one of the church's most successful campaigners against the Italian Communists. As Bishop of Ravenna, he was credited with defeating the Communists there in the 1951 municipal elections. He is sometimes mentioned as "Papabile," i.e., a good prospect to be Pope...
...preoccupied with empty bottles of all sizes and shapes for most of his adult life. This time, only one of his creamy pictures is of bottles. The other two: a still life of oyster shells, a landscape as calm and peaceful as the countryside around Morandi's native Bologna...
...missionary, Xavier was more like a streetcorner preacher than the polished diplomat some historians make him out to be. In Bologna, Italy he had attracted attention "by standing on a vacant bench, waving his big hat, and shouting to loungers and marketing folk to come and listen to the Word of God." In "golden, heartless Goa," the citadel of Portugal's Asiatic colonies, he got crowds for his instructions by walking up & down the streets ringing a large bell. And when he found an audience, he held it. Writes Biographer Brodrick: "Perhaps they laughed at him to start with...
...Arts, Paris; Ralph E. Matlaw to study comp. lit. at the Univ. of Paris; John W. McCoubrey to study art history at the Univ. of Paris; Wallace McDonald to study history at the Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland; Lawrence Moe to study musicology at the G. B. Martini Conservatory at Bologna, Italy; William A. Morrison to study sociology at the Univ. of Bombay; Don Page to study architecture at the Polytechnic Institute, Milan; Theodore W. Patterson to study city planning at the Univ. of London...
...neighborhood children to act out in the Nathan barn. In his late teens, he went east to Cornell, where he edited the school daily, won a gold medal for fencing, received his B.A. in 1904. He topped off his education with a year at the University of Bologna. His uncle, Frederic Nirdlinger. a well-known critic and playwright, got him his first job of cub reporter and third-string drama critic for the New York Herald. Three years later, in 1908, Nathan was introduced to H. L. Mencken. Stanley had met Livingstone in what both men felt to be darkest...