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Marcel Proust recalled a childhood Easter vacation. By embroidering its anniversary edition with evocative pieces from its rich past, Paris' oldest daily, Le Figaro, celebrated its centennial in grand style last week...
Lemass' retirement wound up a 40-year career that both shook and shaped Irish history. A fierce-eyed teen-age participant in the 1916 Easter Week uprising and later a member of the underground Irish Republican Army, Lemass turned politician after independence in 1921 when Britain created the self-governing Irish Free State but retained jurisdiction over the six Protestant counties of Ulster. Eleven years later, the Fianna Fail came to power, led by Eamon de Valera, and in 1959, when Prime Minister De Valera moved up to the presidency, Lemass stepped in as Prime Minister. In power...
...salesmen were calling on the drugstores, supermarkets and discount stores in which American places most of its cards to make certain that they are ready for the biggest single rush of the year. Christmas accounts for half of all greeting-card sales (followed by Valentine's Day, Easter and Mother's Day); well-wishers this year will purchase 7 billion cards altogether. Most buyers like their art and inspiration messages solemn and simple...
...Vatican Roulette." After World War II broke out, Pike got a commission in Naval Intelligence but stayed in Washington. War, that great upsetter of human routine, started him thinking again about what he calls "the big question," and he began occasionally going back to church. One Easter Sunday, at Washington's National Cathedral, Pike was overwhelmed by the beauty of the liturgy and its music, and pondered becoming an Episcopalian-mostly because "it looked like a church ought to look," and had "an intellectual sophistication and breadth." In 1944, the Pikes were remarried in church-"with our first daughter...
...Imelda, a Miss Manila in 1954, who at 36 is one of the world's most fetching First Ladies, took the allied wives to a seaside archaeological site where 15th century artifacts had been partially exposed in advance so that the party could discover them, like so many Easter eggs. Lady Bird turned up several small vases. Imelda, wearing purple stretch pants and a printed purple top with all the brio that Emilio Pucci could have hoped for when he designed them, leaped into a trench and unearthed a burial vase...