Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, reams of copy piled up alarmingly in the composing room of Marshall Field's tabloid Chicago Sun. Deadlines came & went, but the battery of Linotypes stood silent. The printers were holding a marathon "chapel meeting," and the union was in no rush to adjourn. When the Sun went to press, nine hours late, it was in makeshift dress: lacking type, it ran pages of photo-engraved typewriting...
Paris was a one-day stop. There Mackenzie King paid homage to the man who he believes is one of history's greatest. At the Pasteur Institute, where he asked photographers not to take pictures, he went down into an underground chapel, placed six red roses on the black marble tomb of Louis Pasteur. Then he knelt, his face in his hands, for three silent minutes. When he emerged his cheeks were wet with tears...
...Halloween an Anglican chapel in Madrid was vandalized by unknown anti-Protestants ; since then Protestant chapels have been guarded by armed police during Sunday services. Explained one of Madrid's most active Catholic laymen last week: "Out of 27 million Spaniards, there are only 25,000 Protestants in Spain-most of them foreigners. We Catholics lived peacefully with the Protestants while they limited themselves to the practice of their cult. But when they tried to convert Spain into a land of missions, we Catholics are obliged to go on guard and ask strict compliance with the law on behalf...
...disturbing but kindly teacher, Agnostic Bode attracted such big classes that only the chapel would hold them. There, his long figure draped over the lectern, he would lecture with inflammatory enthusiasm. Sometimes, on fire himself, he would edge off the platform onto the top of an adjoining grand piano, to get more persuasively close to his hearers...
...would take a Freudian to detect what shame-free message Gugel has thus found in Cinderella, but churchgoers will be likely to find his surrealist chapel disturbing. By last week Gugel had completed the two side panels for the altar. One of them showed a ship built up from a thumb and forefinger keel, with its sail tattered and twisted about half a face. The title: "Resurrection" (see cut). The other panel, "Martyrdom," was even more obscure. It consisted of a mask, a bloody accordion, and some high-heeled shoes in the snow...