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...hours later he talked with Premier Scelba in Rome. Hunched over the telephone, he said passionately: "EDC must be launched! . . . Europe and the fatherland must be saved." He turned from the telephone in tears. A few hours later he had another heart attack and then another. A priest was summoned, and Alcide de Gasperi, a devout man all his life, received the last sacrament. His daughter began to read the prayer for the dying. Shortly before dawn, De Gasperi said: "I am dying," and then, with his last breath, muttered, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus...
...York Daily Mirror, Photographer Bob Wendlinger is known as "The Bridge Expert." Two years ago he chased a police call to Manhattan's George Washington Bridge, arrived in time to get a memorable, prize-winning picture of a young Negro twisting from the outstretched hands of a priest and plunging to his death 250 ft. below (TIME, March 10, 1952). Last week, cruising in the Mirror's radio car, Wendlinger got word of another suicide attempt. A despondent taxi driver called the paper's news desk and said that he was getting ready to jump...
...When a priest and a sinner become fond of each other, an account of their genial tilting is apt to make a readable story. Such bestselling authors as Giovanni Gua reschi (The Little World, oj Don Camilla), Bruce Marshall (The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith), and A. J. Cronin (The Keys of the Kingdom) have made the most of it. Now enters Dutch Novelist Arie van der Lugt with The Crazy Doctor, to show that the everlasting contest goes on in Holland too. It is, after all, a universal story, its interest limited only by the writer...
Father Conings dropped in on Dr. de Geus to say, "Welcome to my parish." The answer: "I don't want to have anything to do with your dear Lord." But the priest liked the little ruffian,the only other educated man on the poverty-stricken island. It was hard not to like a man who not only treated the poor for nothing but gave them food, money and fuel as well. In Robin Hood fashion, De Geus clipped his few rich patients unmercifully, but no one could accuse him of greed. Before long he and the priest were pals...
...kind of Irish bright boy who can get a little too smart for himself. Eva Marie Saint is quite right, too, in her convent-kept freshness, as the kind of narrow little good girl the bad boys long to be redeemed by. Karl Maiden is bulldoggish as the priest, but hardly conveys the earthy sagacity of the living models the part was drawn from...