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Seldom since the pagan days of old had so many pilgrims come trudging to the shrine of the Goddess of Fortune where it sits in pleasant ruins not far from Rome. But Fortuna was out of luck last week...
When the god Kamo Myojin descended to earth on the island of Nippon some 3,000 years ago, he brought prostitutes with him and installed them in a shrine. There and in neat, cherry-blossomed houses, they flourished as honored licensed entertainers, even after 1946, when Douglas MacArthur ordered the Japanese government to curtail the business...
Crowning this dismal landscape, a great, curved, steel-and-stone shrine called the Polo Grounds beckons to the faithful all summer long. By the tens of thousands they respond. They are a special, indestructible breed called Giant fans. Unprotestingly, they submit to the nerve-jangling rites of entrance: the steaming subway ride or the stuffy taxi crawling across Harlem, the foul-tempered guards who herd them through turnstiles at the gate. Inside, the vast stands sprawl in the sun, the carefully tended ball field is green and trim, ready for the game...
...condemned as far back as 1830, but Oliver Wendell Holmes so stirred Americans with" his famed poem that Congress appropriated money for repairs. Now berthed in the Boston Navy Yard, she is about 90% restored (a good part of the money was donated by citizens), and a favored shrine for sightseers...
...Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, resigned as president of the Modern Poetry Association. But she still planned to toss a few favors and dollars toward Poetry magazine, the flat-broke association's outlet for its members' rhymes, and to make her old family mansion a shrine for longhaired folks. Ever since her Gold Coast neighbors began objecting to the club's intrusion on their quiet life, Ellen Stevenson has been objecting to their cultural lag. By last week, she was on the defensive. Said she: "I now have two lawyers and a business manager helping...