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Deciding that gimmicks are not enough, white-thatched, big-time Mason Frank S. Land, 67, of Kansas City, Mo., former Imperial Potentate of the Shrine for North America, who founded Masonry's Order of DeMolay, last week announced a new experimental drive to restore the prestige of the nation's biggest fraternal order. Next month Land will launch a new bellwether Masonic echelon: the Ancient and Honorable Guild of the Leather Apron, with faithful attendance at Masonic affairs a prime membership qualification. First among his prospective apron wearers: Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, Kansas Tycoon Harry...
...candidate for official recognition as the subject of the ssth miraculous cure to be certified at the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, France, works as hotel manager of the New Venture public house in Kernel Hempsted, Hertfordshire. "My boss was a little scared about me at first," he said last week. "But now I'm working 12 hours...
...occasion: a pilgrimage of 3,000 members of the American Bar Association to the A.B.A. convention in London, where lie the roots of English-speaking law. The place: Westminster Hall, 858 years old, turbulent cradle of English order, serene shrine of English liberty. The theme: the rule...
...have returned to meet together here-returned to rededicate ourselves to the cause of justice at your historic shrine of freedom . . . The keystones of government by law-due process, freedom of speech, jury trial, freedom of the press, fair trial and freedom of worship-have for us all a ringing appeal. And we have a serene confidence that all mankind, when allowed the choice, will claim these invaluable rights. Just yesterday, for example, we observed the Hungarians confirm our faith in the insatiable appetite of all people for freedom-an urge that will brook impossible odds for its satisfaction, proving...
...Across the nation, 75 million people roamed, crisscrossing 34 billion vacation miles in 24 million vehicles, thirsting for new sights and the old familiar places. They crowded the cities in meetings and conventions (in Minneapolis 50,000 members of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine marched for three hours). They poured by the thousands over the central plains, coursing over highways that shouted with signs ("See Harold Warp's Pioneer Village at Minden, Nebraska," and "SNAKES!"), conjured up technicolor dreams as they stood in the weed-grown parade ground of Fort Laramie, Wyo. under...