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...soothes, and Forest Lawn is replete with over 700 statues, including a reproduction of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added. Eaton vainly offered 1,000,000 lire to the Italian artist who could paint him "a Christ filled with radiance and looking upward with an inner light of joy and hope-I want an American-faced Christ...
...from summer jobs for that last wild week of parties at the beach. The summer travelers were siphoning back through gigantic customs bottlenecks, and millions of women throughout the U.S. were getting set for the months ahead. But no matter how frantic or busy, each somehow found time to leaf through the fashion magazines and scan the women's pages of the daily papers in search of one thing: where is that new coat, new suit, new dress or ball gown...
...liberation" against Britain's colonial regime, which cost nearly 18,000 dead and required 350,000 Commonwealth troops before it was crushed. (London took back his O.B.E.) In 1955, Chin and 600 ragged followers withdrew to southern Thailand, bided their time living in attap (palm leaf) huts...
...ever a building marked a turning point for its designer, it was Edward Durell Stone's U.S. embassy in New Delhi. With its gold-leaf columns, lacy grills and inner water courtyard, it won him architectural accolades round the world. "I have been a marked man ever since," muses Architect Stone, 64, by no means unhappily. At home, the New Delhi embassy triggered commissions that include the just-started John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and the soon-to-rise 50-story, marble-sheathed General Motors Tower in Manhattan...
...course, the American Guild of Variety Artists estimates that 40% of its members got their start on the Amateur Hour. Some of the richest of them flunked their first test. One night 81 years ago, the audience awarded first prize to a South American who played the laurel leaf, while voting down another contestant, Ann-Margret. And in 1953, a swivel-hipped lad named Elvis Presley didn't get past the first audition...