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More than a Dollhouse. In Chartres Cathedral the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared many times and wrought miracles. In 861, three years after the church was destroyed for the first time (by the northern invader Hastings). Charles the Bald donated a treasured relic, the shift of the Virgin (now known as the Sacred Veil). By charging admission to see it, he reasoned, money could be raised for the church's rebuilding. The veil is still there, and Chartres is dedicated to the Virgin. "This church was built for her," wrote Henry Adams, "in this spirit of simpleminded...
Hawaii has never been the same since a bald, rotund tourist wafted in on the trade winds for a vacation in 1954. The tourist was Henry J. Kaiser, fresh from several careers as wartime shipbuilder, automaker, steelman and millionaire chief of a vast industrial empire. Vacationing with his second wife, Kaiser found hotel accommodations scarce on Honolulu's crowded Waikiki Beach, rented a house near Diamond Head, and sat back to wonder who would house the hordes of mainlanders he felt sure would discover the island's natural beauty and balmy climate. His predictable answer: Henry J. Kaiser...
...Lighthouse Builders. One of the most vocal critics of this state of affairs is bald, hulking Lei Chen, 63, publisher of Taipei's struggling (circ. 23,000) Free China Fortnightly. Lei, who joined Chiang's Kuomintang as a youth of 20, served as a Cabinet minister in several Nationalist governments, but was ousted from the party in 1954 either because he was implicated in smuggling (government version) or because he printed criticism of the government in his magazine (Lei's version). Since then, Lei and his editors have ceaselessly berated Nationalist China's "one-party dictatorship...
...Judas Priest!" Up in the stands in seat 18, row 10, entrance 5 was a short, bald track coach who knew better than any other man just how much the 1,500 meters would cost Johnson and Yang. U.C.L.A.'s Ducky Drake had trained them both. For two days he had alternately worried about Johnson ("He's tense. Loosen up, Ray. Loosen up! Relax"), and exhorted Yang ("Judas priest! Get that blasted head down on that high jump"). Drake guessed that Johnson would forget about winning the 1,500 meters, try simply to stick close enough to Yang...
...high point in The Music Man at Broadway's Majestic Theater, the melody of Till There Was You climbs and blazes in a crescendo of awakening love between Bert Parks and his shy sweetheart. The baton in the orchestra pit below is not wielded by the usual bald male conductor, but by a very pretty young lady who might have just defected from the chorus onstage. With striking Titian-red hair, plus face and figure to match, Liza Redfield has the looks for anything except what she is: Broadway's first fulltime woman conductor...