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Monsignor Enrico Pucci of the Vatican had a great fondness for food, drink and cards. His apartment in the heart of Rome was furnished more like a garconniere than the chaste retiring place of a church dignitary. And he liked money. In the '305 he made as much as $1,000 a month as tipster to foreign correspondents...
...Pucci, handsome and impressive looking, gave visiting newsmen to understand that he was the only real pipeline to the Vatican. Whether he was or not, no one really knew and he frequently had information in advance of other sources; he did, in fact, scoop the world on the election of the last two Popes. But with the coming of war Pucci's stock fell. Soon he was reduced to supplying items to a handful of German and Jap newsmen in Rome. After liberation, new correspondents, who had never heard of him, began covering the Vatican as they would...
...refugees of all had washed into Switzerland-the Italian Fascists. At the Palace Hotel could be met such old-time friends of the Count as Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, widow of the Fascist foreign minister whom her father had had shot. With her was her latest lover, dandified Marchese Pucci, who had helped whisk her across the Swiss frontier when Mussolini fell. This strange pair descended periodically from their snug mountain chalet to dance, dine and wine...
Beneath St. Peter's dome stood Monsignor Enrico Pucci, head of the Vatican's semi-official news bureau. He looked out across the jeep-filled streets of the Eternal City and murmured: "Oh, it's just another changing of the guard...
Monsignor Pucci was for years the best-paid correspondent in Rome-for unless foreign newsmen subscribed to his service it was impossible for them to avoid being scooped on Vatican news. If they wanted an exclusive they had to pay extra...