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...hardened harlots." But, generally, Expatriate Feehan sticks to chiding German frauleins on their spraddle-footed dancing, and American housewives on their hair curlers, calling the roll of celebrities who pass through town, and pointing the way to good food and drink, e.g., for Balkan dishes, "go to Bei Milan's in the shadow of the Rathaus...
...Milan, one of Italy's Communist centers, was on fire last week with a Christian blaze. Day and night, well-organized Catholic Action workers staged rallies, Sisters of the Poor passed out leaflets, loudspeaker trucks blared Schubert's Ave Maria, 200 preachers fanned out through 31 hospitals and clinics. In churches and cinemas, banks and jails, men and women gathered to pray...
...center of the campaign-preaching, teaching, criticizing and applauding 20 hours a day-was Milan's Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, 60, who, though he is not yet a cardinal, is frequently mentioned as successor to the present Pope. Said Archbishop Montini to his priests in opening the mission: "Go ye forth and speak. Your lips are opened. Preach the Gospel to every living creature . . . Open the churches! Open the houses and courtyards, schools and barracks . . . Open every doorway and above all open every heart...
Flying Friars. When Montini decided this fall that Milan needed a major spiritual lift, he went at it with energy and thoroughness. From Bologna he borrowed Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro's squad of 20 "Flying Friars" (TIME, Dec. 7, 1953), whose trucks carry loudspeakers, altars and confessionals. From all over Italy he hand-picked a corps of 800 preachers belonging to all religious orders. He lined up the cooperation of Milan's officials, businessmen and non-Communist Labor leaders. Aim of the mission is not converts but "to strengthen man's filial ties...
Died. Giuseppe di Vittorio, 65, burly, brawling boss of Italy's Communist General Labor Confederation (CGIL) and onetime (1949-57) president of the party-line World Federation of Trade Unions; of a heart attack; while dedicating a new labor hall at Lecco, near Milan. Di Vittorio strongarmed his CGIL into an 8,000,000-member postwar political powerhouse, saw it dwindle to 3,000,000, become well-matched by Italy's free unions. Last year he publicly denounced the "intervention of foreign troops" in Hungary, was branded a "class collaborationist" and bounced from the WFTU presidency...