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...Billie Holiday. The movie of the same title imagines a more romantic genesis. It has the piece written by a broody piano player (Stefano Dionisi) at a restaurant as a seemingly hopeless love offering to its manager (Erika Marozsan), who is the mistress of its wry, civilized owner (Joachim Krol...
DIED. JOHN CARDINAL KROL, 85, archbishop; in Philadelphia. During his 27 years of leading the nation's sixth largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, the Polish-American prelate was an opponent of abortion and nuclear weapons, a master builder of some 100 churches and a player in Vatican politics, where he was a force behind the rise of John Paul II to the papacy and an adviser on financial matters...
...Secretary of Veterans Affairs. "Not just through the church hierarchy but through individual churches and bishops. Monsignor Bronislaw Dabrowski, a deputy to Cardinal Glemp, came to us often to tell us what was needed: he would meet with me, with Casey, the NSC and sometimes with Walters." John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia, whose father was born in Poland, was the American churchman closest to the Pope. He frequently met with Casey to discuss support for Solidarity and covert operations, according to CIA sources and Derwinski. "Krol hit it off very well with President Reagan and was a source of constant...
Other residents also said that the months of waiting were worthwhile. "Before," said Dorothy Krol, "the park wasn't good for toddlers. There were no good swings or slides and it was kind of boring...
...Lesniks, a small tribe of hunter-gatherers, have been conquered by a marauding band of Poles, whose leader, Krol Rudy, wants to establish an agricultural base to feed his vision of a unified Polish nation. Those Lesniks who escaped the butchery of the invasion hide in the neighboring mountains, gathering strength for a counterattack. But Cybula, their elder, receives a peace offering. Cybula has his doubts, not only about his enemy's intentions but about the new way of life posed by the prospect of tilling the fields: "It was not necessary to tickle and scratch Mother Earth to make...