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Gaudiest of all the murders was that of Albert Testa, a midget-model (4 ft. 6 in.) burglar, counterfeiter and gambler, who was shot twice and dumped into a West Side alley. Testa was a friend of the late William ("Action") Jackson, a 300-lb. "juice man" (a collector of loans for gangland usurers known as "juice dealers"), who was tortured to death and stuffed into the trunk of his Cadillac last August. Testa, 48, had also been romancing an 18-year-old, green-eyed stripper who moonlighted as a police informer, picked up her lowdown by keeping her ears...
...inevitably bring demands for more papal visitations. One feature of the conference was the celebration of the early Christian custom of agape, or love feast, in Munich parish homes and in its famed beer hall, the Hofbräuhaus, where some 900 people watched the papal legate, Gustavo Cardinal Testa, move smilingly among them, passing out hard rolls to be eaten with cold ham and roast veal accompanied by Palatinate wine...
MONSIGNOR GUSTAVO TESTA, 73, born to a wealthy family in Italy's Bergamo Province, where John XXIII was a peasant boy, and close friend of the present Pope since they were fellow students in Rome. Like John, he has spent most of his career in the Vatican diplomatic service, having held posts in Austria, Germany, Peru, Egypt, Palestine and Switzerland...
...badly maintained building that has disappointed many a pious tourist. Crowded into its dingy interior, the shrines, chapels and stalls of six branches of Christianity (Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic and Abyssinian) constantly interfere with each other's services and worshipers. Under Msgr. Gustav Testa, Apostolic Delegate in the Holy Land, the Roman Catholics have been working since 1939 on these plans for a basilica with beauty and elbow room...
...Delegate Testa will do his best to have at least three holy places-Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth-internationalized and placed under U.N. mandate. Contact man with U.N. for the negotiations will be New York's Cardinal Archbishop Spellman. Once the Palestine question is settled, say Vatican officials, a gradual extension of Cardinal Spellman's U.N. middle-maneuvering "is not unlikely...