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...celebrated shrine at Lourdes is the No. 1 pilgrimage center in Christendom, but the town of Lourdes exploits the shrine's fame with a brazen tastelessness that is alarming French churchmen. Chief offenders are the dealers in pious objects. In Lourdes, a Pyrenees town of only 16,000 inhabitants but more than 600 hotels, some 580 of the total 710 businesses deal solely in these gimmicky souvenirs of St. Bernadette Soubirous. Samples: neckties that glow at night with Bernadette's image, washable plastic Virgins in every size, corkscrews in the shape of Bernadette adoring the Virgin, fountain pens...
...water, Bernadette-imprinted soap for washing in it. Other "water" items: perfume, throat lozenges, cakes and candy advertised as "made from water blessed by the Holy Father." One ad agency is talking of hiring an airplane to skywrite ads for its clients' products directly above the shrine...
Paean to a Softy. Mounds of congratulatory telegrams from celebrities filled his suite. Jack Dempsey, the McGuire Sisters and the cast of Say, Darling wished him well. Hedda Hopper was sorry she couldn't make it. Frank Sinatra, Winchell's current shrine character, reserved three tables for opening night (but failed to show up). The Milton Berles, George Raft, Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams were all there. Thoughtful ex-Gambler Mickey Cohen sent flowers and a personal emissary: "Mickey thought it was for the best he should'na come, Walter." "Yeah," said Walter, "it's just...
...celebrating their way." In Washington the President of the U.S. worked on the Law Day speech he would deliver to a nationwide television audience. And the Chief Justice and Attorney General of the U.S. made ready to travel to Philadelphia and Independence Hall. There, in liberty's shrine on the eve of Law Day, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General William Rogers would join in nationally televised cere monies with the man who conceived the idea of Law Day: Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, president of the American Bar Association, prime mover in the campaign to get the U.S. this...
...sacred symbols; its cross is not something to shift around like a piece of stage scenery ... By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making itself into a shrine to the one unifying faith of Harvard indifference...