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Chartres Cathedral, standing high above a windswept plain, 55 miles southwest of Paris, was built by farming folk. From the 4th Century, Chartres had been their spiritual center. When their Christian church, on the site of a Druid shrine, was destroyed by pagan Normans in 858, the people built a better one. Three times in the next three centuries, the church was swept by ruinous fires. Each time they made it more splendid than before...
When it was found that a Shrine circus (some seals, horses, dogs and elephants) was bedded down in the New Orleans auditorium where Margaret Truman was scheduled to sing, the order was given to cart them off to a parking lot for the night. Reason: Miss Truman is allergic to animals. Next day in Mobile, Ala., her concert manager set the record straight. Miss Truman loves animals, he said, and she is not allergic to them. It was all the fault of the Secret Service men who "made up the allergy angle to have the animals kept away from...
Since before World War II, a group of archaeologists led by New York University's Dr. Karl Lehmann has dug among the ruins of the Great Gods' shrine. The most famous relic, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which stood on the bow of a marble ship heading toward the sea, had been removed to the Louvre, but marble fragments of the shrine's buildings still choke a narrow valley...
...ball crisply, 170 yards straight down the fairway, and an antique cannon beside the tee boomed a salute. It was the traditional "driving in" ceremony, performed each year-but not always so well-by the elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient, golf's oldest and holiest shrine. Francis Ouimet, onetime caddy from the wrong side of Boston's tracks, was the first American ever elected captain...
...London, a group of prominent clergy and laymen proposed that St. George's Church in Gravesend, where Pocahontas, wife of John Rolfe and savior of Captain John Smith, has been buried since 1617, be dedicated as a shrine to Christian unity. Said the London Times: "One who tried to reconcile her own primitive American people with the invading white men is perhaps no bad patroness for a church dedicated ... to the idea of unity-unity both of the American and British nations and of the Christian churches. It should be a matter of pride to see that the appeal...