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...event, the surprising selection of Karol Cardinal Wojtyla last week as the 264th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church attracted exceptional interest. To report on the background of Polish-born John Paul II, and to assess the reactions of his former parishioners, TIME dispatched Washingtpn Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski to Cracow...
...Once in Cracow, he stopped by the mansion that until last week had served as Wojtyla's home, and found its nuns and priests hospitable-an opportunity he quickly seized. "I still speak Polish," Wierzynski says, "which was an enormous help in conducting interviews and getting around. It also helped me understand and share the emotion of the Poles as they talked about their-our-Pope. Poland is a stubbornly proud and patriotic country, and no greater recognition can come to this nation than to have one of its own made Bishop of Rome. More than once, I felt...
...quarters for a 90-minute private chat. Ritualistically, the Premier was invited to look at a sleeping Amy. He also met Miz Lillian and gallantly kissed her hand. Miz Lillian, Begin observed, reminded him of his own mother, a Polish Jew who was killed by German storm troopers near Cracow...
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire for 68 years, succumbing at last at age 86, two years after the start of World War I. When Franz Joseph succeeded to its command, the Habsburg holdings included Milan and Venice, Prague and Cracow, as well as Vienna and Budapest. Within two years of his death, the empire had been reduced to the small country, centered on Vienna, that it essentially is today. The Eagles Die is the story of that Habsburg sunset, and of the golden light that Viennese culture shed in the waning days of empire...
...Born in Cracow, Poland, "Madame" founded her empire in Australia in the early 1900s by successfully marketing a version of her mother's home-brewed recipe for face cream. When O'Higgins first saw her in 1950-plowing down Madison Avenue, a crocodile bag in one hand and a brown-paper lunch bag in the other-she was the undisputed queen of the beauty industry; he was travel editor of Fleur Cowles' peekaboo fashion magazine, Flair. Sometime later, after an introduction by mutual friends, he was invited to become her personal secretary. His salary was modest...