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...through one of the chapel's other doors. There are eight in all, two on each wall, but four of them are blank. A sealed door leads to the adjacent Church of San Lorenzo, and the last two open into small unused rooms on either side of the altar (Michelangelo called them lavamani, or washrooms). One of these lavamani had traces of various 16th century sketches under its old whitewash. The other had a trap door in its floor leading to a long, narrow storeroom. Perhaps, Dal Poggetto thought, the storeroom could become another exit to the street...
...match between Margaret and Tony at first cheered the royal family, who were glad to see the princess, then 29, at last heading for the altar. But even before the ceremony, some royal doubts were heard about Tony's eclectic circle of friends-a lissome Chinese model who had once been his closest companion, other photographers, assorted designers and decorators and fashionable young marrieds who spent more time apart than together. Nevertheless, the wedding in Westminster Abbey was a dazzling state occasion. Apparently genuinely in love, the couple sailed off in the royal yacht Britannia to a honeymoon...
...laughing at Strawberries record shop on Boylston Street on January 9 at noon. She has come to promote her new album Horses and sign autographs. Strawberries is hip. Somebody at the store has made an altar of Black Ken dolls, melted wax, plastic horses, alligators, kangaroos. Dirt. Ashes. All images in her poems. The altar stands in an alcove lined with an arch of over 200 of her albums. Photographers drain the juice on their electronic strobes as people shyly wait with pens. One kid, who stole Patti's "Braves" jersey the other night has come to return...
Died. H. Allen Smith, 68, pungent humorist-author of 36 books, many of them bestsellers; of undetermined causes; in San Francisco. A onetime altar boy and chicken picker, Smith quit school after the eighth grade and began newspapering. In 1941 he was feature writing for the New York World Telegram when he published bestselling Low Man on a Totem Pole, enabling him to quit his job and concentrate on humor. Always the newsman, Smith saw himself as a reporter who was funny only because "the world is funny...
Last Oct. 12,25 high school students waited in the Union, N.J., office of the Transcendental Meditation movement. One by one they entered a room and reverently knelt before a candlelit altar holding a picture of the late Guru Dev, Hindu holy man and predecessor of TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Each student brought fruit and flowers to be placed on the altar by Teacher Janet Aaron, who then recited a Sanskrit puja (hymn of worship)* and whispered each student's mantra, the secret word that must be repeated to aid meditation...