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...work on the chapel in 1520, when he was 45. He had finished the Sistine Ceiling, and the 20 months spent painting on his back had half blinded him (for some time he could read letters only by holding them over his head). The Sistine Ceiling had been a hymn to creation; the Medici Chapel, De Tolnay believes, was to be a more somber hymn to immortality. Michelangelo failed to finish it. After 14 years of constantly interrupted work, the master left Florence to paint the Last Judgment for Pope Paul III in Rome, and never got home again...
...raffish, rascally Basil Seal, motorbiking Father Rothschild (a member of a younger branch of the banking family, who had become a Jesuit priest), and the American evangelist, Mrs. Melrose Ape. With her cotton-winged angels (Chastity, Divine Discontent, et al.), Mrs. Ape wowed high society by singing her inspirational hymn: There ain't no flies on the Lamb...
...appointed day, in a ballroom of the royal palace, Archbishop Damaskinos, Primate and former Regent of Greece, lifted his jeweled cross for the groom and best man to kiss. Then the choir began the Orthodox hymn Devro Nymphi, Devro Nymphi-"Come bride! Come good bride, come pure bride, come, oh beautiful chaste bride...
...Atlanta, Ga., Dr. Sam F. Lowe, director of the Baptist (radio) Hour announced results of a favorite-hymn poll conducted in Southern Baptist territory. Winner of this Baptist Hit Parade was the Rev. George Bennard's lachrymose Old Rugged Cross. Runners-up: In the Garden, Amazing Grace. In last place (13th) stood Rock of Ages...
...still has a quick eye for good-looking women, and an obvious attraction to them. He makes a point of telling friends that he never looks in mirrors, even to shave, says, "I hate my face." Friends who went with him to see the first showing of The Hymn of the Nations, the movie he made for OWI during the war, said he looked away self-consciously whenever his image came on the screen. But he dresses fastidiously, is visibly pleased when a friend remarks on a new coat or suit (most of which he still has made...