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Little is known about the Etruscans, a talented, highly civilized people who ruled Rome from about 600 B.C. to 500 B.C. The Etruscan written language has not been deciphered, and even the origin of the people, supposedly in Asia Minor, is known from tradition only. The Romans took over much...
The book becomes almost worth reading when, in one incredible passage that may well benumb the entire Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, the author has a tribune tongue-lash the Senate: "You, Romans, friends and countrymen, have heard me before. I come not to honor Rome but to bury her." Author Caldwell...
Pope John XXIII stepped into his black Cadillac one day last week and rode to the church of St. Paul Outside the Walls. (Along his route, the night before, policemen had painted out life-size posters of Paris-born Cinema Star Marina Vlady in a skintight bathing suit.) In a...
Inspector Maigret (Lopert). One dark night a woman is stabbed to death in the Rue des Rosiers. Five minutes later the criminal calls the Paris police and challenges Inspector Maigret to catch him. Enter Maigret-sometimes known as "the French Hercule Poirot"-the hero of at least 44 romans policiers...
Pope John XXIII rode through cheering crowds of Romans this week to take formal possession of the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome-the great, grey basilica of St. John Lateran. Popes in bygone times used to make the short journey across the city on horseback, which sometimes enlivened...