Word: rome
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Edward Cardinal Mooney, 76, Archbishop of Detroit, died in Rome last week, and the U.S. lost one of the outstanding churchmen of his time...
...Savage, Md. and grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, where he starred both in his studies and on the baseball diamond. Following graduation from Baltimore's St. Mary's Seminary, he was selected to continue his studies for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome, where he was ordained in 1909. For the next 13 years he served his church as an educator, briefly had a parish in Youngstown, then was called to Rome as Spiritual Director of the North American College. So impressed with him was Cardinal Gasparri, then Secretary of State to Pope Pius...
...Golden Six is Off-Broadway Maxwell Anderson and it is badly off the beam. The contemporary theater's most avid creator of historical drama, Playwright Anderson this time has swooped down on Rome during the last years of Augustus, when the Emperor and his powerful wife Livia (Viveca Lindfors) look forward to a continuing family empire, while most of the family prospects are shown scheming backward to a republic. Proffering history in great swigs and histrionics in huge gobbets, the play staggers and plunges on through a brace of reigns, amid dedicated and degenerate heirs, with Livia...
...frenetic quality that would have astounded the great voices of a more leisurely age. Tebaldi will sing 22 performances at the Met this season (Tosca, Cio-Cio-San, Mimi, Desdemona and Manon Lescaut), will then take a swing about the country on a recital tour, move on to Havana, Rome, Naples, then make her Paris Opera debut, go on to the Vienna Opera. July will be given over mostly to new recordings in Rome. Tebaldi's pace would probably be even more furious if it were not for the fact that she finds it "a sufferance to get into...
Prepaid Signal. While Pius XII lay dying inside the cream-colored stone walls of Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence 15 miles southeast of Rome, 200 newsmen gathered for the courtyard deathwatch. United Press International rented a room on the square and dickered with a nun for the use of her telephone; the Associated Press signed up a village butcher's phone; reporters lounged in their cars or on cots and sleeping bags, drinking Cokes, shaving in the fountain. Rome's Italia news agency, mistaking a fluttering Gandolfo curtain for a prearranged, prepaid signal of the Pope...