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...hawklike man with an ascetic face, Behn worked in an eyrie high in the tower of the company's Manhattan headquarters, an oak-paneled chamber in rich Louis XIV style, a painting of the late Pius XI behind his desk. Often he would gather aides to listen on earphones as he telephoned subsidiaries on every continent, suavely speaking in all major languages, a trader who could charm dictators and dicker deals in every monetary exchange...
...James Francis Murray Jr. is an accomplished attorney who speaks five languages and practices international law on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He is also a New Jersey state senator, has moderated radio's America's Town Meeting of the Air, co-authored a biography of Pope Pius XII, and finds time for relaxation with his attractive wife and five children. But like many an Irish boy brought up around the "Horseshoe" District of the late Frank Hague's sprawling, dirty Jersey City, Murray is a hard-rock politician at heart. Last week Jim Murray broke Hague...
...consistory lasting only four minutes and 35 seconds-the shortest of his reign-Pope Pius XII last week conferred the galero (the cardinal's red hat) on Poland's primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (TIME, May 20). Reason for the brevity was that the protocol of a longer ceremony would have required the presence of Poland's accredited envoy at the Holy See, who represents not the present Communist regime but the World War II, right-wing government in exile, still hanging on in London. This would have embarrassed Wyszynski in his dealings with the Communist government...
Even if the cardinal goes home emptyhanded, it is certain that he will go as the top man on the church's firing line, and with the respect and gratitude of the Vatican statesmen, from Pius XII on down. For no country in the Roman Catholic world knows such a flowering of the faith as Poland today, and no country owes so much to a modern prince of the church for merely being alive...