Foot Wrenched. Pain sharpened the lines of His Holiness' usually serene and always amiable face last week. Descending from the papal automobile for his diurnal promenade in the Vatican gardens he wrenched his right foot. After a day in his private quarters he forced himself to give his usual audiences in the throne room. The pain continued. So public, but not private, audiences have been suspended for the present. Before his election to the Papacy he was a doughty mountain climber. Age, not immuration, is responsible for his present frailty. Next May His Holiness will be 72...
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