Word: xii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loan companies, vice president of a radio-TV station, a director of other corporations. A devout Roman Catholic (he had a chapel built in his home so that priests could say Mass there), he was once supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. In 1944 Pope Pius XII made him a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword, a post entitling him to serve a turn of duty on the Vatican staff if he ever wants...
...over the country, workers and clerks spilled into the streets and squares, wearing the Torinos' badge encircled in black crepe. Pope Pius XII sent a message of condolence to the players' families. Mourned President Luigi Einaudi: "Horrifying disaster . . . Harsh blow for the entire nation...
...Jeanit priest, who has often attacked Harvard College for allegedly weakening the faith of Catholic students and who has advocated withdrawal of some of them to Catbolio colleges, is seeking "an infallible pronouncement by Pope Plus XII on the issues involved...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and wife called at the Vatican for a "very pleasant talk" with Pope Pius XII, a onetime violinist himself (he took lessons for five years in his youth...
Nicholas Verven '51 and J. David Baumann '51 carried off the two first prizes of $50 each in the finals of the Boylston Speaking Contest held in Paine Hall last night. Verven gave the Allocution by Pope Plus XII to the Consistory of Cardinals on the arrest of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, and Baumann recited Ulysses' speech on order, from Shakespeare's "Troilus and Crossida...