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...distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology and canon law he earned. When he attended the Lombard College at Rome, he and his comrade Alessandro Lualdi (later cardinal) were rated the most brilliant. Because he reorganized the Ambrosian Library in Milan and made it really useful to scholars, his friend King Vittorio Emanuele made him a Knight of the Outer of Saints Maurice & Lazarus.† His Significance. In the long list of Popes, Pius IX (1846-78) ranked as a great dogmatist. Far more important than the loss of the Papal States were...
...Pope. But of course they would not. The late debonair Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val was seriously discussed as the Able Man. So too were a few others. But the preponderant choice after seven ballots, as everyone now knows, was Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan...
Arguments by many another great statesman were equally weasled. In the midst of the proceedings Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov quit the Commission last month, denounced Mr. Gibson and the rest as "hypocrites bent on conserving the armaments of their countries!" flounced off to Milan for a secret talk with Italy's Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, finally returned to Moscow leaving Russia represented at Geneva by pensive, hyperintellectual Anatoliy Lunacharsky. (He. as Soviet Commissar of Education, released an "educational film" in which talented Mme Lunacharsky played the role of the seduced heroine...
...Angeles the first week in February, the Salon's next stop before closing in San Francisco in February's third week. Conspicuously absent were the usual large number of foreign cars, Minerva and Isotta Fraschini being the only importations. Isotta bodies are made by famed Castagna of Milan. President of the U. S. Isotta sales company is Ugo V. D'An-nunzio, son of Italy's Poet-Soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio. Short, plump, light-com-plexioned, modest, 43, Son D'Annunzio came to the U. S. in 1917 to supervise the manufacture of Caproni...
Tosca, by Italian artists and orchestra of La Scala, Milan (Victor, $21)?The Puccini-Sardou opus more vividly performed than in many a leading opera house. The recording would warrant a blindfold competition with a firsthand hearing...