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...salesman carrying his sample case arrived at the gift shop of a Roman Catholic shrine and demonstrated "the hottest item this year": a picture of Jesus in a small plastic frame. By slightly moving the picture, the salesman explained, the bearded face of Jesus could be transformed into the beardless face of Our Lady. When the manager of the shop ordered some small plastic statues instead, the salesman wrote in his book: "6 dozen Him, 6 dozen...
...said last night that Waldorf has signed a now three year contract which would keep him as coach until the end of the 1956 season. Marsten squelched further rumors that Waldorf would leave by announcing that he has been named head coach of the West team in the annual Shrine football game against the East...
...sound stages around Tokyo and the shrine city of Kyoto last week, Japan's six major movie producers and some 20 independents were grinding their cameras at a record-smashing rate. Directors, outfitted in the early Hollywood tradition with dark glasses, sport shirts and berets, roamed the sets shouting such Southern California expressions as "Camera!", "Cut!" Japanese moviemakers, who were second only to the U.S. in the number of feature pictures produced last year, this year expect to complete 319 full-length films...
Going Underground. Perhaps the dreariest city in Europe was Paris, principal shrine of all tourism, where sidewalk cafes stood empty most of the time and even the six remaining fiacre drivers looked in vain for customers. "I have had only two customers in a week," reported one. But even relatively abandoned Paris could point to a record number of arrivals as the more purposeful tourists, most of whom had booked their trips in advance without benefit of weather prophecy, poured in to see the sights they counted as "musts...
Theodore Roosevelt's house in Long Island's Oyster Bay is now a national shrine. But on a windy March day in 1887, Sagamore Hill was just a large, rambling house young Teddy had built, with twelve bedrooms for foreseen eventualities. That March day Teddy brought his bride home in a surrey with a fringe on top; soon enough the eventualities came too. The house with its 80 acres was plenty of home, but not too much, for the two girls, four boys and their innumerable cousins. Teddy thought it was bully, and the children thought that their...