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...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...
Mother of Decorum. On Good Friday, as if to reassert Christendom's spiritual claims to the city, a small procession of Christian pilgrims struggled through hail and harsh winds along the Via Dolorosa toward Calvary. In Rome, meanwhile, Pope Pius issued an encyclical appealing for Jerusalem's internationalization and demanding a guarantee of free access for Catholics to Jerusalem's holy places...
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...
...Rhode Island's Senator J. Howard McGrath, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Pope Pius XII conferred a Knighthood of the Holy Sepulchre...
...Pope Pius XII passed his 73rd birthday and his tenth year as Pontiff, hard at work, made no official observance of the occasion...