Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nepotism is not a new word at the Vatican; evolved from the Latin nepos for nephew, it originally described the fat handouts of princedoms and privileges to the nephews of Popes centuries ago. Last week the word went back to its old meaning and added new fuel to the hot church v. state issue in the campaigning for next month's general elections in Italy...
...POPES' NEPHEWS DON'T PAY THEIR TAXES, yelled Italy's left-wing (but antiCommunist) weekly L'Espresso. The facts were not that simple, but they were enough to stir Italy's increasingly overt anticlericalism. Don Giulio Pacelli, 47, nephew of Pope Pius XII, has long been a well-known man-about-the-Vatican. A prince and a colonel of the Noble Guard, he has held positions in many offices of the Vatican administration and many Congregations of the Curia. Currently he represents Vatican investments on the boards of the Banco di Roma, and pharmaceutical, shipping...
...villa and announces that he is her brother. He sports the right tattoo, recites her favorite rhyme, even knows how to mix the apéritif she guzzles before a swim. When she calls a friendly, reliable old uncle (Alexander Knox) to denounce the rascal, uncle celebrates his nephew's reincarnation. Then a couple of creepy, creeping servants jangle her nerves even more. Who is the hero? Is it the sad-mouthed police comisario (Herbert Lorn) who lurks in the shadows? Is there a hero...
...CHIMP, 18, nephew of a "famous Brooklyn gangster," belongs to a gang that is largely Italian and Irish, was expelled from parochial school for bad conduct, was arrested once for larceny, will probably gravitate to the Brooklyn docks where, as he well knows, bigtime crime is rampant. "Sometimes guys come to work on the docks," he says. "They hope to make money, save it and get away and go into business. But they never make it. How can they? Where else can you earn that kind of dough...
Lucky in Angels. In matters of art, Cleveland has been lucky in its millionaires; three big trust funds finance the museum. But far and away the kindest angel for the new wing was Leonard Colton Hanna Jr., nephew of famed President-Maker Marcus Alonzo ("Mark"') Hanna, and big stockholder in M. A. Hanna Co. (iron ore, coal, lake shipping, steel), who died last October at 67. Bachelor Hanna became an art collector soon after graduating from Yale ('13), early keyed his private purchases to the museum's future needs. Over the years Hanna gave the museum...