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...history, then abruptly lost all interest in the project. Furious, Michelangelo took French leave of Rome, and it was seven months before he was reconciled. The Pope then put Michelangelo to work on a heroic bronze statue of himself and later to painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This time he gave the painter no peace, coming day after day with questions and suggestions. Once the terrible-tempered Florentine threatened to throw the Pope down off the scaffold; once the Pope actually beat the painter with his cane...
Searching for a Korean peace plan, the Peace council will hold an open meeting with other university organizations and church groups at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Chapel Room of P.B.H...
...book's first chapter is a candid account of the relationships, frictions and ultimate understanding between the people of Britain and the hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen whom they suddenly found in their midst. Later chapters tell of the financing of an American Memorial Chapel in St. Paul's Cathedral (through the small, anonymous contributions of millions of people in the British Isles, who raised approximately $280,000), and of the dedication on July 4, 1951 of the Roll of Honour, listing the names of the 28,000 American dead...
...story of the chapel is told in the book's preface: "In the eastern apse of the war-scarred St. Paul's Cathedral, in the heart of the City of London, stood the Jesus Chapel, which was wrecked in the blitz of 1941. Where the Jesus Chapel once stood, a new shrine is now taking shape . . . The American Memorial Chapel in St. Paul's . . . commemorates the Americans of all services who lost their lives while based upon Britain during...
When the British press and radio sent out requests for donations to build the chapel, thousands of letters accompanied the gifts, many telling of the writers' recollections of men in the U.S. forces...