One day last week Pope Pius XI, in his youth a daring sealer of high peaks, was s informed that:
Bounce. A certain Marcello Nitrati, Italian tourist, had just scaled St. Peter's dome and jumped off. After bouncing once against the side of the dome he plunged to the roof (308 ft. below), became the first suicide in the newly constituted Papal State (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929).
Flag. Two priests, one Swiss, the other Italian, climbed last week to the topmost crag of the Matterhorn (climbed 40 years ago by the...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
