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...American schoolchildren, Columbus has been the all-time heroic figure portrayed by Channing and, more romantically, by Washington Irving in 1828: "a man of great and inventive genius" whose "ambition was lofty and noble." No wonder that Pope Pius IX wanted to make the discoverer of America a saint, or that more places in the English- speaking world are named for the Admiral of the Ocean Sea than for any other historical personage except Queen Victoria...
Harvard's Spencer Punter overcame Mother Nature to lead the Crimson with his 20th-place finish. Punter covered the 6.2-mile course in 31:50, just one minute behind winner Peter Rono--the same Rono who was the 1500 champion in the 1988 Olympics--of Mount Saint Mary's College...
...sell a house these days. Not just any broker can perform one, so many sellers are turning to an expert: St. Joseph. Religious-goods merchants in several cities have been surprised at the brisk sales of St. Joseph statues, which homeowners bury in their yards in the belief the saint will drum up some business. The hopeful sellers inter the statues headfirst, with the feet toward heaven...
Believers have sought the saint's help in household matters for centuries. St. Joseph, a carpenter, was handy around the house, after all. The Catholic Church has no objection to such appeals for intercession, but brokers, complained Father James Coen, head of the Catholic Information Center, to the New York Daily News, "are turning this into a first-class sales gimmick." Successful sellers are advised to exhume the statue and enshrine it in their new home. Co-op owners who have no yards may have to pray to someone else: St. Jude, patron of lost causes...
Then everything started coming up robins in springtime. Mel Brooks, looking to produce films other than his own, saw Eraserhead and determined that Lynch should direct The Elephant Man. The film, cued by the parable of physical deformity as a kind of saint's sackcloth, embellished by Lynch's phantasmagoric direction and anchored by John Hurt's delicate performance as John Merrick, won the director big-studio notice. He could do anything now -- anything but turn Frank Herbert's daunting science fantasy into a movie Dino De Laurentiis would like. "I sold out on Dune," Lynch says today...