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After a tour of New York City Police Headquarters, Princess Gabriela Pacelli, 36, niece-in-law of Pope Pius XII, reported that one thing amazed her: "You cannot distinguish detectives in civilian clothes from other citizens. In Italy you can tell a policeman no matter how he is dressed...
...perfect landing at New York's International Airport last week flew a silvery DC-6 with strange markings painted on its sides: L.A.I. Out stepped the suave, spruce U.S. Ambassador to Italy, James C. Dunn, and black-mustached Prince Marcantonio Pacelli, a nephew of the Pope. They were members of a party celebrating a momentous event in Italian commercial aviation, the first flight to the U.S. by an Italian airline...
...formed in 1946, when the Italian government teamed up with Trans World Airlines to revive commercial aviation in Italy. T.W.A. and Italy each took a 40% interest in the new company, sold the remaining 20% to three private Italian concerns. As president of L.A.I, they picked personable Prince Pacelli, now 43, a popular, socialite Rome lawyer. As his American deputy they chose auburn-haired Richard Mazzarini, a Rome-born U.S. citizen who had worked for a U.S. airline before serving...
...keeping a close eye on costs (the airline has no headquarters of its own, shares offices with a state-subsidized steamship company), Pacelli, Mazzarini and Gallo are able to undercut the railroads on some domestic routes and still make a profit. L.A.I, has paid a 5% dividend to its' stockholders every year...
...first time in the school's 132-year history that a faculty member had been thus honored, the ninth time in a half century that St. Louis University had granted an honorary degree to anyone. (Among previous recipients: Marshal Foch, Belgium's Cardinal Mercier, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, now Pius XII.) "He has been more than a teacher," read the citation. "He has been a symbol...