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...town to address the Imperial Potentate's Banquet at the annual Shrine Convention in Chicago, Shriner Harry Truman, 71, smilingly donned a fez with the jeweled insignia of his home Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...
...handsomest man in the Corps . . . At any rate, you'll have to give it to him that he is well developed abdominally. In common with most fat men, he is an enthusiastic and sonorous devotee of the King of Indoor Sports, and roars homage to the shrine of Morpheus on every possible occasion . . . At one time he threatened to get interested in life and won his 'A' by being the most promising back in Eastern football-but the Tufts game broke his knee and the promise. Now Ike must content himself with tea, tiddlywinks and talk...
Like Schlesinger and Mrs. Wilcox, however, she said that it was unrealistic to expect the property to remain vacant. "You cannot expect to keep it as a shrine to old Cambridge," Mrs. Wilcox said...
...Mary and showed his cloak on which there was an image of a dark-skinned Madonna above a crescent moon. The Virgin of Guadalupe became the patroness of Mexico, and on the site of the Aztec temple to Mother-Goddess Tonantzin, Mexicans built the basilica that became their national shrine...
...life. This is a high point in a movie called Wiretapper, designed by ex-Wiretapper Jim Vaus to bring sinners to repentance by dramatizing his own life on the fringe of big-time wrongdoings. Wiretapper (starring Bill Williams and Georgia Lee) has its world premiere in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium this week before an admission-free audience (it is still uncertain whether it will be distributed commercially). Wiretapper is the latest and possibly most potent weapon in the arsenal of a personable young evangelist. No Collection Problems. In 1947 Jim Vaus was a Los Angeles electronics engineer in business...