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...family's 85-year-old store is both an art shrine where collectors and plain shoppers may browse in peace, and a smart shop where a bride may order everything from her china, glassware and sterling to her custom-tailored furniture and kimonos. Gump's will give shelf room to a $12.50 piece of California pottery-if it is esthetically good-alongside a $1,800 piece of Ming Dynasty porcelain, and encourages its customers to do the same...
...telephone call from Galloway Calhoun, imperial potentate of the Shrine, who was stranded in Hawaii by Harry Bridges' waterfront strike, and wanted Shriner Truman to do something. Secretary Matt Connelly told him there was nothing the President could...
Mummies & Metaphysics. Today the mosquelike structures of Rosicrucian Park house an Egyptian and Oriental museum (complete with genuine mummies), an auditorium, a library, a shrine dedicated to Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, a planetarium and Rose Croix University, with its Colleges of Fine Arts, Mundane and Arcane Sciences and Humanities...
Four years ago the U.S. Seventh Army rolled triumphantly into Munich. Last week, from the city that was Naziism's birthplace and shrine, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled...
High above the ancient shrine of three faiths, a Zionist banner proclaimed: "Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem." In the flag-decked streets below. Jewish youths danced the Hora. It was a day of triumph in the city which, for centuries of their exile, has been the symbol of the Jews' lost homeland...