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...eastern end of her 900-acre Hyde Park estate, rather than in the 40-room "Big House." Her reason: "It is simpler and easier." Another reason: privacy-the cottage is almost two miles from the mansion, which eventually will be opened to the public as a national shrine...
...concert was brilliant: Rossini's Overture to Semiramide and Beethoven's Seventh. ("We didn't watch his baton, we watched his eyes," the concertmaster said. "They flashed for crescendo, smiled for melody, cried for the depths.") The 7,000 worshipers that jam-packed the huge Moorish Shrine Auditorium spent half the intermission praising the Allah of music and swearing that Toscanini was his only prophet...
...south, the U.S. Seventh and the French First Armies had slower going, for they were in the outer defenses of the Nazis' Alpine bastion. But this week the Seventh plunged forward 15 miles to the Nazi "shrine city" of Nürnberg...
...Itadashi Arsenal and 30 other targets in five square miles of the city. The U.S. crews noticed that the raging fires they started were swept by the wind toward the Imperial Palace. The Japs screamed that the palace had been set afire and the Emperor Meiji's shrine damaged; the people were "irresistibly indignant...
...going to be our grave let us make it clean." We attended to cleaning up the area. The furious assault of the enemy commenced. . . . Two men pathetically committed suicide due to severe wounds. The lieutenant and the pharmacist section bade farewell and promised to meet at the Yasukumi Shrine after death. I, with Lieut. Yamaguchi, was absorbed into the command section and was very happy...