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...Coast-time to make breakfast or to drive to work-when the flickering radio signal carried the voice of Cardinal Canali announcing, in his soft, Italianate Latin: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum-habemus papam." The press, whose attention for days had been focused on the smoke signals from the Sistine Chapel, promptly provided both great clouds and small wisps of facts about the man who would henceforth be known as John XXIII. TIME'S task was to organize the mass of facts-which reached the U.S. haphazardly morning and night for a week-into a coherent, intelligible story. TIME...
...Covered Throne. For the duration of the conclave the cardinals-ranged on their thrones along the walls of the Sistine Chapel-in effect share the powers of the papacy. But from the moment the new Pope accepts his election, they revert to their usual status. To signify this fact, the cardinals tug heavy silken cords to drop the baldachin that hangs over each chair, leaving only the new Pope's throne covered. As the cardinals line up to kiss the Pope's slipper, knee and cheek, he faces for the first time the responsibilities that Monsignor Bacci defined...
...decreed excommunication for the slightest leak: press-relations-conscious Pius XII, who may have known more about the foibles of Popes' aides and press than anyone thought he knew. With the strict code in force, the edgy press corps watched smoke rise from the chimney in the Sistine Chapel after the first two ballots last week and, in each case, fired off false bulletins. They flashed too soon because the first puff of smoke seemed to be white (Pope elected) but on second puff it turned out to be black...
...Bruno de Leusse of the French Foreign Ministry will speak on "France and Algeria" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Adams House Lower Common Room. Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel Room of Phillips Brooks House, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., professor of History, will address the Harvard Young Democratic Club...
Married. Granville James Leveson Gower, 39, fifth Earl Granville and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; and Boon Aileen Plunket, 26, a granddaughter and heiress of the late Beer Tycoon (Guinness Stout) Ernest Guinness; in the Queen's Chapel, London...