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Earmarked. In Rome, Italy, Romano Pandolfi, sick & tired of being teased about his big ears, grabbed a razor, trimmed them down to pint size...
...American womanhood got a kind word from Visitor Maria Romano de Gasperi, 23-year-old daughter of Italy's visiting Premier. She had thought the girls who came to Italy-"so nice, so full of life"-were exceptions; now she found that "these qualities are peculiar to all American women." She also admired their clothes. "But I think," she added, "that American women look better when they wear sport clothes than when they try to look sophisticated...
...week's end, Msgr. Joseph Hurley, acting apostolic nuncio to Belgrade, rushed back to his post after consultations in Rome. The Tito Government prepared for an elaborate show trial. Said the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: "We think of [Stepanic] like his Lord, accused of having deceived the people, of not having yielded unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, for having said that he was able to destroy in three days the temple of Titus. . . ." For Titus, the Vatican paper, which is written in Italian, used the Italian word, Tito...
...Vatican daily Osservatore Romano hailed Stalin's statement that the world wants peace: "[Stalin] affirms that only the flame of peace must be fed. That is Christian. There are those who question" Stalin's motives in making the statement -and "this is less Christian...
...Osservatore Romano's unauthorized outburst regretted that the creators of the bomb had not followed da Vinci's example (with his plans for the submarine) and destroyed it, on the ground that mankind is too evil to be trusted with such power. Later, men "high in Vatican circles" spoke of "useless massacre,"deplored "the circumstances which have compelled" the use of the bomb. London's Catholic Herald recalled Pope Pius' "Christian distinction between legitimate and illegitimate weapons...