Word: rosi
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...Rosi cherishes his anonymity. But to the painted popsies of the world's most famed red-light district, he is well known as Père Pigalle, and his phone number is carried in many a swinging handbag. The neon-lighted little night world of bars, nudity and clip joints is his mission field...
...Certain Comfort. When he entered the priesthood 30-odd years ago, Father Rosi joined a missionary order noted for its work among the Papuan Islanders-the Congregation du Sacré-Coeur d'lssoudun. But instead of sending him forth to convert the heathen, his superiors appointed him mathematics professor at the order's Collège de Thoissey, of which he eventually became director...
...conducting a group of young hikers through the Chevreuse Valley when a pretty 17-year-old girl joined the party. "We had a long conversation," Father Rosi remembers. "She seemed lost, and I had the impression that I gave her a certain comfort. She asked to see me again." Six months and many talks later she told him that she was a prostitute. "Then she reformed her life. She is married now, lives in Africa, and is a courageous mother...
...Father Rosi had become a missionary after all, and it was only a question of time before he had permission to shuck his soutane and go to work on the oldest profession. He never lectures his girls. "Moral strictures serve for nothing," he explains. "I am like a fisherman with his line-it is impossible to persuade the fish to bite; they must do that themselves if they like the bait. What is necessary is to give these women the consciousness of human dignity. Then one bright day they change their way of life themselves...
Yale will start Captain Johnny Cobb and Tom Vogt at the forward positions with Joe Zilly at center, while Chuck Seelbach and Ray Anderson will play guard. Substitutes include Al Ingley, John Owen, Fred Rosi, Irving Walradt, Al. Bartholemy, Art Wightman, Bob Halliday, and Chalmer...