Monsignor Enrico Pucci of the Vatican had a great fondness for food, drink and cards. His apartment in the heart of Rome was furnished more like a garconniere than the chaste retiring place of a church dignitary. And he liked money. In the '305 he made as much as $1,000 a month as tipster to foreign correspondents.
Pucci, handsome and impressive looking, gave visiting newsmen to understand that he was the only real pipeline to the Vatican. Whether he was or not, no one really knew and he frequently had information in advance of other sources; he did, in fact, scoop the...
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