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When she became the wife of handsome John Davis Lodge in 1929, Italian-born Francesca Braggiotti was famed as a beauty and a dancer. When her husband-Senator Lodge's brother, and once a movie actor-was elected to the House from Connecticut last November, beauteous Mrs. Lodge transplanted her talents to Washington. Last week, they were bearing strange fruit...
...informal lunch, a closed session in the afternoon. Then they all went over to the swank Sulgrave Club, where Chairman Reece (standing with his wife in the receiving line) pump-handled the visiting firemen: Connecticut's hand some new Representative John Davis Lodge and wife (onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti); retiring liaison man John Danaher; Indiana's Charles Halleck, probably next House majority leader; and all the other GOPsters from far & near who put up the cash and get out the vote...
...year-old grandson of the late Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, brother of new Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; ex-Navy lieutenant commander and onetime cinemactor (The Little Colonel with Shirley Temple, The Scarlet Empress with Marlene Dietrich). In his campaign, Republican Lodge and his wife, onetime dancer Francesca Braggiotti, invaded Bridgeport's Italian district making speeches in Italian, while his opponent, Ranger hero Colonel Henry Andrew Mucci, a second-generation Italian, spoke only English. Lodge will fill the seat occupied for two terms by retiring Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
Married. Lieut. Edward John Behn (rhymes with lean), U.S.N.R., 23, aide to the Chief Allied Commissioner for Italy, son of I.T. & T.'s canny president Sosthenes Behn; and Francesca Brigida Sapuppo, 21, daughter of the late Baron . Sapuppo, onetime Italian Minister to Denmark; both for the first time; in Rome...
Ordinarily, no step toward sainthood can be taken until the "Servant of God" in question has been dead at least 50 years. In Francesca Cabrini's case this requirement was waived by direct action of Pope Pius XI; her process started ten years after her death in 1917, giving her one of the quickest canonizations of modern times. (Three others were proclaimed saints at the Vatican ceremonies last week: Jeanne-Elizabeth Bichier des Ages, a French nun who died in 1838; Bernardino Realini, an Italian Jesuit, who died in 1616; John de Britto, Portuguese missionary martyred in India...