"A deadly cholera is pervasive in all Western societies, a cholera of popular culture, spewing of the presses and thro' the airwaves, deading everything and cheaping all. It engulfs us and in time will strangle us."
James Mitchener in his book "The Novel"
An Italien cavalry officer once fell in love with an Irish girl in Rome, a relative of Winifred Letts, the writer. The officer eventually proposed to her but was refused.
Years later, the woman received a picture postcard of Pope Pius the ninth from Italy, on which were written the words: "You made me Pope."