PAPAL STATE: Peter's Cellar

The Pope he leads a merry life, merry life He's free from trouble, care and strife, care and strife He drinks the best of Rhenish wine I would the Pope's gay life were mine.

—U. S. College Song.

Besides the Rhenish wine of tradition, good Italian wine in gargantuan quantities was brought to the Pope's cellars last week by pious Italian vintners, grateful for last year's record vintage of nearly 29 million barrels.

Into the Papal throne room filed 3,000 Frascati pilgrims in unaccustomed dress suits, black vests, white gloves. Each pilgrim grasped firmly by the neck a bottle of...

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