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...short after-dinner speech, Jordan paid warm tribute to his Captain, saying that he wished "the country could meet this representative of Harvard and the Ivy League." The Crimson football coach also lamented that men like Meigs are ineligible for post-season contests like the Shrine game in San Francisco because of the recent Ivy League rulings...
Death on the American Plan is practiced in a temple of make-believe known as the Funeral Home. The shrine is constructed, as often as possible, along the lines of a country club and rectory combined. Outside, there are gracious plantings of evergreens-designed to "create favorable public sentiment." Inside, there is a sumptuous succession of music rooms, chapels, lavatories, storerooms, and, of course, "slumber rooms." The decoration is "subdued but cheerful," which enables many funeral homes, when their business is lagging, to rent space to wedding parties. And here, where the reek of euphemism mingles with the chemical deodorant...
During the summer, however, the old Jewett house was razed, thus ending hopes of making it a historical shrine and clearing the land for future use of some sort...
...stands the small, twin-towered, white Church of Senhor Bom Jesus do Matosinhos. Last week the church was the goal of the great annual pilgrimage of Brazilian backlanders, as it has been each September since 1786. The Church of the Good Jesus has all the religious trappings of a shrine: founded by the Portuguese hermit Feliciano Mendes, and today a Redemptorist mission, it boasts the original cross used by the hermit and a wooden effigy of the Good Jesus renowned for winder-working properties. But only in recent decades have Brazilians recognized that the church itself is a priceless part...
...Uniontown, Pa., more than 100,000 Roman Catholics at the 21st annual pilgrimage of the Pittsburgh Greek Rite Diocese to the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help heard Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York sing the first pontifical Mass (Byzantine rite) ever offered in English. The congregation joined in prayer for the conversion of Russia. Bishop Sheen prayed that the Communist hammer-and-sickle symbol "may be transfigured so that the sickle will look like the moon under Our Lady's feet and the hammer like the cross from which Christ will forgive His persecutors...