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...brush with the press. When a newsman remarked that all the ladies were wearing nylons, one club member explained: "The merchants of Independence made them available so we wouldn't be outshone by the ladies of Washington." That night Harry Truman sent everybody off to the Shrine Circus. Mrs. Truman was very gay until a clown 'tried to sit on her lap. "That will be enough," said the First Lady firmly. Thereafter, and throughout the evening, the ladies noticed that Bess looked rather grim...
...Homma for war crimes in the Philippines. Said she: "Today's judgment does not come from God, it comes only from a human. I believe that some day God will pass final judgment. I am satisfied-and I know my husband is satisfied-to be buried in Yasukuni Shrine with the rest of the Japanese soldiers who fell at Corregidor...
...when the fishermen of Boulogne found the Virgin, then a prow on an unmanned ship that sailed to anchor despite the harbor's shoals. They were as ardent now as when mighty Charlemagne, or splendid Francis I, or Sun King Louis XIV made pilgrimage to her shrine...
...terrible battle at Falaise in August 1944, a Presbyterian padre in the Canadian Army had a deeply patriotic impulse. From a burned-out tank Major Robert Currie Creelman, M.B.E., took the bones and ashes of an unidentified Canadian, placed them in an urn, brought them home, planned a memorial shrine to all Canadian dead in World...
...might have written the life story of La Piaf. Two policemen assisted at her birth in a Montmartre street 30 years ago. When she was two and a half, she was struck blind-according to her. She was cured, at seven, when she and her grandmother visited the Normandy shrine of Ste. Thérèse de 1'Enfant Jésus. As a young girl she sang in the Paris streets, a tiny, birdlike creature who clasped her hands behind her and fixed her eyes on the heavens. A friend gathered up the sous which...