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...Rockne, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Vincent Sheean, Jack Dempsey, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. To casual travelers, and more importantly to American expatriates in the '20s and early '30s, Harry's New York Bar in Paris was a singular institution-a home away from home, a living shrine to U.S. booze, and the only place in Paris where a homesick American could buy a genuine...
Everything Moves. The Peppermint Lounge is the latest shrine for Manhattan's pleasure-sated café society. Scattered in the swarm of habitués, like rhinestones in a bowl of raisins, the interlopers watch with delighted approval as the dancers squirm and wrench...
...quite a dream in itself. Now being built on top of a sawed-off hill near the Israeli Knesset, it will house not onlv the old Bezalel National Museum, which is the largest general museum in the Middle East, but also the Samuel Bronfman Archaeology Museum, a Shrine of the Book (to 'hold the Dead Sea Scrolls), and the Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The Art Garden already has Billy's own private collection, which Israel finally accepted as a gift last year after deciding that it would not be a violation of Leviticus...
...anyone before), some Israelis wonder what should be done with Eichmann's body. A former inmate of a Nazi death camp explained, "We cannot profane the Holy Land by burying that Satan here. But if we send the body to Argentina or Germany, neo-Nazis will make a shrine of his grave." His solution: "Dump the corpse in midocean, or send it into outer space...
...wasn't too surprised when Mrs. Kennedy decided to use the lawn of our national shrine at Mount Vernon for a dinner party [July 21]. Perhaps this can be followed by a cookout at the Lincoln Memorial...