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Humble Request. Mario Moretti, an Orvieto jack-of-all-trades, had the idea of exposing the reliquary to the multitudes at Rome in the Corpus Christi procession of this Holy Year. Moretti took his suggestion to Bishop Francesco Piero, who wrote to Pope Pius XII about it, was delighted when the Pope accepted the offer. In a notice posted on the cathedral walls, Orvieto's Bishop Piero announced: " ....Generously condescending to my humble request, His Holiness has granted that Orvieto's precious reliquary be carried in Rome's procession this jubilee year of 1950." Orvietans, gathered...
...quiet the people, Bishop Piero stood up in the cathedral pulpit. Said he: "I beg you Orvietans ... we live in dire times . . . There is so much suffering . . . in the prisons . . . hospitals . . . streets . . . homes . . . behind the Iron Curtain that has been lowered across Europe. For the sake of our brothers beyond, one of whom saw faith's light because of our corporal, don't be divided by quarrels. Make the sacrifice, however great it may seem, for the sake of our persecuted brothers ... The Bohemian College in Rome has asked us for the honor of being the reliquary...
Competing for the 300,000-peso ($34,000) top prizes were 132 two-man teams including such hot drivers as Indianapolis Speedway veteran Johnny Mantz, Italy's Piero Taruffi, winner of the 1948 Grand Prix de Berne auto race, and President Miguel Aleman's chauffeur, whose handsome new Cadillac, fresh from the palace garage, bore the name Coche México. There was a Los Angeles war veteran driving a 13-year-old Cord, a red-haired torch singer from Mexico City, a Texas grandmother sponsored by a brassiere manufacturer, and a 70-year-old Arizona widow with...
...businesslike wife Gala, but he had given her a Raphaelesque pose, fixed her in a harshly geometrical composition and surrounded her with a Renaissance vocabulary of symbolic images. For example, the egg suspended from the scallop shell over her head was taken from a 15th Century Madonna by Piero della Francesca. The shell symbolized baptism, the egg, Resurrection...
From Paris, Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre reported that inasmuch as New Year's Day falls on Saturday, normally the heaviest work day of the week for overseas bureau-men, any undue celebrating the night before would automatically bring its own punishment. In Madrid, Correspondent Piero Saporiti expected to join the crowd in the Puerta del Sol (Madrid's Times Square), dodging the used electric light bulbs that Madridians store away for this occasion, whirring a wooden zambomba which gives out a deafening clack, and brandishing a bunch of grapes over his head (you eat twelve grapes...