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...George Cardinal Mundelein as judge. "Devil's advocates" were appointed to cross-examine witnesses and eliminate spurious miracles. One of them, Monsignor Giovanni Delia Cioppa, came all the way from Rome. Churchmen could recall no such tribunal having taken place before in the U.S. In strictest secrecy, by candlelight behind locked doors in an austere chamber in Columbus Hospital, one witness at a time appeared before the court. Black-robed nuns swished through the hospital corridors, attending to the needs of judges, advocates and witnesses. Across the hall nuns vowed to secrecy bent over desks, laboriously making four copies...
Manhattan's Daily Advertiser advertised the U. S.'s first panorama show (Jerusalem) in 1790, "at Lawrence Hyer's Tavern, between the Gaol and the Tea Water Pump; the sight is most brilliant by candlelight." The U. S. panorama fad reached its peak in the 1850's, faded fast...
...these six months I subscribed to TIME, which previously I had known only as a magazine on my friends' tables. Of course it came late, but that made no difference in such a place. I used to parcel it out, reading sections of the magazine each night by candlelight after I had finished writing up my day's notes, and restraining myself with great difficulty from swallowing it all at one gulp. I do not think a magazine could have been put to a more exacting test of its interest. Not only was it a tremendous relief...
...last week Alberto Santos-Dumont, the rebel, was forgotten. The revolution was over and all Brazil went to work to apotheosize Alberto Santos-Dumont, the air hero, in good South American style. In Rio de Janeiro's ancient metropolitan Cathedral, hung with black velvet and flickering with candlelight, the body lay in a huge sarcophagus. In the murk of the nave, 2,000 Brazilians per hour filed slowly past day & night. The day of the funeral was a national holiday. Laurel leaves were strewn solidly on the Avenida Rio Branca for 720 ft., the distance of the hero...
...Manhattan's East 63rd Street is his town house. In its library he has stored an enviable collection of ancient legal books. Portraits of his ecclesiastical ancestors outstare each other from the high walls, and in winter a fire crackles on a Tudor hearth. There is candlelight...