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...masterpieces and oddments. There was everything from brilliant primitive paintings to snuff boxes shaped like glass slippers, 14th century Tuscan ceramics and the red-fringed picnic basket that an 18th century Corsini cardinal once took into the Vatican conclave from which he emerged, basket on arm, as Pope Clement XII. The Serristori loaned their priceless illuminated manuscripts, as well as two elaborately decorated Renaissance trays once used to carry water to noblewomen in labor. A plate bearing the arms of Roberto Strozzi and Maddalena de Medici marked one of the great weddings of the 16th century. A delicately inlaid table...
...makes for the liveliest guessing game in Rome since the betting in 1958 on who would succeed the late Pius XII as Pope...
Died. Edwin King Daly, 63, president since 1936 of Horn & Hardart Co.'s Automat restaurants, active Catholic layman who was made a Knight of Malta and Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Pope Pius XII; of a heart attack; in Bryn Mawr...
...assignment came from Pope Pius XII, who was said to be irked that the cardinal had left his post. But John XXIII, deeply concerned over the Chinese Communists' efforts to establish a tame "national" Catholic Church in schism from Rome, felt that Cardinal Tien could serve on Formosa as a rallying point for Asian Catholicism and as a symbol of papal interest in the Far East...
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