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...Gaulle needed a gift to take on his visit to Pope Paul VI. Culture Minister André Malraux suggested three abstract paintings. One was titled The Holy Face. On looking it over, De Gaulle inquired: "Where is the Holy Face?" An embarrassed adviser replied: "Eh bien, mon général, if you stand here, in a certain light . . ." De Gaulle interrupted: "No, you won't make me offer that to the Pope!" The Pope got a tapestry instead...
...Conductor Milton Katims told her stories and played games after her appearance with the Seattle Symphony. At age twelve, Dylana is a thoroughly natural child whom everybody seems to adore. Last week at the New York Philharmonic Promenades, where she appeared as violin soloist under Maestro André Kostelanetz, one of her concerns seemed to be to limit her smile so as to conceal the braces on her teeth. Despite a few nerve-induced intonation miscues, she played the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with sweep, dash and daring...
Star of the oratory, and the subject of much of its religious chrome plating, is the man for whom it was built -a semiliterate French-Canadian orphan named Alfred Bessette, better known as "Brother André, the miracle man of Mount Royal." As a religious brother, Bessette served for 40 years as doorkeeper and handyman of Notre Dame College, a boys' school at the foot of the hill. He was humble, devout and frail, a sufferer from chronic dyspepsia. But he had, it is claimed, miraculous healing powers...
...invoking the favors of St. Joseph, his patron saint, and handing out bottles of burned sacramental olive oil, Brother André reportedly cured as many as 15,000 crippled, blind and dying pilgrims a year. When he died in 1937, at the age of 91, half a million people filed past his bier, and Brother André was put up for sainthood...
...discerned. A local newspaper received demands for $50,000 in ransom, but they apparently came from cranks. By last week, although Montreal police still had two detectives on the case, the oratory's priests had given up hope. Whatever the motive, the thief may have been doing Brother André a favor. Enshrined in the templed glories of package-tour religion, the humble lay brother's heart was painfully out of place...