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...best crowd-pleasing bits fall to Sinatra. His serio-comic masquerade as a Nazi becomes more than a stunt when, speaking German with eyes, hands, and shrugged shoulders, he fakes a conversation with a Gestapo man who has spied his American watch. Inevitably, the tedeschi leave a voluptuous collaborator (Raffaella Carra) reclining in the caboose. Sinatra spurns her advances, and when she tries to escape, he regretfully mows her down, simultaneously thumbing his nose at his own public image and giving this rolling-stock melodrama at least one swift, strong, indisputable moment of truth...
...Pope's Mirror. "I never aspired to be more than a country priest in my diocese," said Cardinal Roncalli later, but when he returned there it was as secretary to the Bishop of Bergamo, aristocratic Monsignor Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, to whom he still refers as "my spiritual father." Roncalli's ten years with the bishop gave him some of the polish that later helped make him a successful diplomat, and some of the intellectual zeal that turned him into a teacher and scholar. In addition to his secretarial duties, he organized Catholic Action groups, taught church history...
...Harvard World Federalists elected their officers for the coming year last night at Phillips Brooks House. New officers are as follows: President, Gordon L. Brumm '53 of Kirkland House and Lakewood, Ohio; Vice-President, John A. Tedeschi '54 of Straus Hall and Framingham, Mass; Secretary-Treasurer, James H. Bredt '53 of Adams House and Lakewood, New Jersey...
...State Department, puzzled the British and alarmed Communists. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced coldly that the U.S. would not follow its ally's lead and "recognize" the Badoglio Government. Communists throughout the world bowed their Red heads and took it like party members. Naples' Communist Paolo Tedeschi declared: "Perhaps the recognition embarrassed us somewhat. . . but it will neither lessen our sympathy . . . for Russian Communism nor . . . our determination to work ceaselessly for the King's removal." Count Carlo Sforza added: more appearance than reality...
...Tags, Two. The speaker thrust out a brown German field cap, its peak splashed with blood, its swastika and flying eagle half-covered with mud. "Due Tedeschi morti!" he repeated, then said in English: "We catch them coming to kill my pig. No pig for them-sons of bitch! See, we have what you call dog tags...