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...good health until the recurrence, a week ago, of the gastric pain and hiccups that had plagued him in 1954. He soon struggled back into his stringent schedule, but one day last week, as his doctor was examining him, he suddenly cried in alarm, "Dio mio, non ci vedo!-My God, I cannot see!" It was a stroke. The Pope fought back. His vision restored, he summoned his substitute Secretary of State, Angelo Dell'Acqua, and sharply demanded: "Why have the audiences been canceled?" He received Holy Communion and Extreme Unction from his German Jesuit secretary, Father Robert Leiber...
...private talk recently, Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi once again urged his old friend, Left-Wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, to break with the Communists. Sadly Nenni replied: "That's exactly what I'm trying to do. But it isn't easy, Dio mio, it isn't easy." Last week, for the first time in ten years, Nenni broke with the public Communist line on a fundamental policy issue. European unity. But Dio mio, it wasn't easy...
...brakeman on an Italian railroad. The seventh child of a poor carpenter, he was brought up in Ravenna, considered a career in civil engineering before he turned to racing, in which he had only middling success. He was standing under the shower one day singing O Sole Mio when the cyclist in the stall next to him told him that he had a voice. Pinza prepped with a home-town voice teacher, was accepted by the conservatory at Bologna, made a whistle-stop debut with a small opera company, and departed for World...
...Italy it is called Polvere di Stelle, and ranks with O Sole Mio as an alltime favorite. In Japan it is called Sutaadasuto, and is one number record stores are not afraid to overorder. In England, where professionals call it a "gone evergreen," no song has sold more copies. In the U.S. it is called Stardust, and is the nation's most durable hit-comfortable as an old shoe, and yet rare as a glass slipper...
...said he: "I can curl them around a bat handle, and that's what counts." At a gathering of baseball writers not long ago, the grand ballroom of New York's Waldorf-Astotfia resounded with a special song in his honor (to the tune of O Sole Mio...