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Away out yonder in Missouri, Harry Truman gratefully accepted $6,200 from his Independence neighbors as a contribution toward building his projected $1,750,000 Truman Library, which will house his mountain of personal papers and other Trumaniana. He was especially pleased to contemplate such a shrine...
...other supposedly invulnerable fellow, he was exposed, when in the buff, as more of a maudlin breast-beater than a Front Page chesty. Swept up by the Chicago literary movement just before World War I, he tried to temper his fondness for cadavers with pious offerings at the shrine of The Little Review. In its inner circle a young man might hear anything from a first reading of Sandburg's Chicago to Maxwell Bodenheim's murmuring cottony love messages into the rapt ears of plump bluestockings ("Your face is an incense bowl from which a single name rises...
Last month Cheshire made a weekend trip to the shrine at Lourdes. The experience moved him deeply and gave him an idea. Working from his hospital bed, he promptly put it into practice. His plan: to organize a series of airborne pilgrimages to Lourdes by friends of invalids, on the invalids' behalf. Last week the first group of 25 spent a weekend at the shrine (cost: about $36 each...
...Benedict was the spiritual founder of all monasteries. On the summit of Italy's Monte Cassino, 14 centuries ago, where pagans had raised a shrine to Apollo. Benedict gathered around him a group of fellow Roman Catholics to withdraw from the world and yet be a part of it. He wrote them a rule of useful work and communal worship and solitary contemplation that has been a model of monastic discipline everywhere and ever since...
...Roosevelt Memorial Association dedicated to restoring the old Roosevelt home in New York. Despite setbacks--such as the presence of a cleaning emporium on the site of the old home and a continual shortage of money--the women, with $150,000 in aid from the men completed the shrine in 1922. The house itself is a replica of the old one, constructed, with the advice of Roosevelt's younger sister Corinne, complete down to wallpaper, draperies, and furniture as it had been. A neighboring building housed the library from 1922 until its removal to Widener...