Word: castel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Harlow H. Curtice, 63, president of General Motors at $775,400 a year (take-home pay: $121,689), was being received in private audience by Pope Pius XII at Castel Gondolfo, Italy, his big brother LeRoy, 68, a G.M. paint and metal inspector, relaxed in his frame house in Lansing, Mich., happily anticipating his first $63 monthly company pension check after retirement. When kid brother Harlow retires in two years, his pension will come to about $68,000 a year. Said LeRoy: "I wouldn't want his job. Too many headaches. On that job your brain works...
...Senate passed a bill authorizing payment of $964,199.35 to the Vatican in full settlement of damages suffered by the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo when it was accidentally bombed by U.S. planes during World...
...Riccardo Lombardi, S.J., spellbinding preacher of social responsibility to the Roman Catholic rich (TIME, March 1, 1948), is supervising construction of a building near Castel Gandolfo to be called "Pius XII Center for a Better World." "I shall dedicate what remains of my life," said Jesuit Lombardi, 47, "to creating half-a-dozen apostles and perhaps as many as 1,000 preachers who will continue my work . . . The Catholic camp must re-examine itself, and only the Pope can direct such a thing. But to do so, he needs the assistance of a stable organization that can dedicate the whole...
Married. Countess Emanuela Castel-barco, 19, blonde granddaughter of Conductor Arturo Toscanini; and Duke Gian Luigi Acquarone, 32, wealthy Italian nobleman; in Milan, Italy...
...denied press hints that 1) a miraculous cure of the Pope's stomach condition had followed the vision, 2) that a dossier of possible miraculous occurrences was being assembled with a view toward the Pope's eventual canonization. Nevertheless, when the Pope left his summer home at Castel Gandolfo to return to Rome, crowds cried: "Viva il Papa santo." ¶ The church must put sex "in its proper and God-given place," said the Church of England's Moral Welfare Council. "It is the church's care that sex should be rightly used and guided . . . Much...