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Still catching up on Battle-of-Britain bomb damage, Eton last week dedicated a splendid new window for its cherished 15th century chapel, but it was hardly the kind of window old Etonians might have expected...
Today her windows glitter in churches all over the British Isles, and she has turned out everything from a somber, Rouaultish window for a Dublin Roman Catholic military chapel, to a greenish-gold abstract for the Irish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. A Catholic in a Protestant family, she lives alone, ventures out seldom. "I have to save what energy I have for my work," she explains. Her one extravagance is Paris ("My excuse is to buy glass"), and twice a year she can be seen rambling around Montparnasse, a tiny figure in mannish tweeds puffing...
...pictures of each other quaffing beer from giant steins. In Italy, as one enthusiastic female put it, "everything was divine." Prices were low, the food & drink excellent, and waiters now know what "on the rocks" means. Tourists explored catacombs, craned their necks at the Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, where a sign cautions: "Visitors are forbidden to lie on the floor." In Venice, they fed the pigeons in St. Mark's Square, drifted down the Grand Canal in gondolas, and pointed out to each other the palaces once lived in by Byron and Browning. They rolled through...
Headed by President Conant and the Overseers, state officials, members of the faculty, and the honorary degree winners, the stage on the steps of Memorial Chapel...
...program began with a chapel service for seniors in Memorial Church...