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Like most of the events in Stark Young's life, this one was a shooting of the most fashionable rapids. He opened the proceedings with a lecture to 53 lady friends of Greece and art, including the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Countess di Zoppola, Countess Mercati. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and a clutch of male critics and writers...
Author Arlen, still a fashion plate at 43, is now in Greece with his wife, the Countess Atalanta Mercati, who is as beautiful as her name, and their two children. Nowadays his highest ambition is "to write a book which I can read after I'm fifty without nausea." The Flying Dutchman, pure Arlenquinade...
Twice during the past three weeks, newshawks thought there was personal significance in papal remarks. When he elevated Librarians Giovanni Mercati and Eugène Tisserant to the cardinalate (TIME, June 22), the Pope said: "We invite the Catholic faithful to pray that the Lord permit us, so long as life lasts, to pass it in unceasing, fruitful work. . . ." Scanning plans for improvements to St. Peter's Square, he remarked: "When a man is 80 years old, he cannot make too far-distant dates." Last fortnight, on the eve of the feast of St. Peter, Pius XI, in accordance...
...diplomacy or administrative policy dictated the Pope's latest appointments, which bring the cardinalate to the unprecedented number of 68, two less than full strength. Cardinal-elect Mercati, 69, and Cardinal-elect Tisserant, 52, both come from that august treasure-house of learning, the Vatican Library, of which Pius XI (as Monsignor Achille Ratti) was once prefect and which he still cherishes. Giovanni Mercati is now its prefect, Eugene Tisserant its pro-prefect...
When Eugéne Tisserant was only a boy, Giovanni Mercati was making friends with Achille Ratti, then with the Ambrosian Library in Milan. Last week Vatican politicians were reminding newshawks to watch Cardinal Mercati at the conclave which must some day elect a new pope. One reason: new cardinals make good compromise candidates. Cardinal Mercati has been called the most learned prelate to be elevated to the purple in the past century. Succeeding Achille Cardinal Ratti in 1918 as prefect of the Vatican Library, Monsignor Mercati has published in U. S. and European journals many a scholarly article...