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...with a dueling scar on his cheek (he said he was Swiss, called him self de Vaudois) was also curious about Bastineau. He wondered why so many peasants were knitting mittens with an identical, peculiar pattern; why peasants came from miles around to lay food on a lonely mountain shrine; why the old cure's sermons were almost unintelligible to strangers. Whenever Fenton started up the mountains in search of Bastineau, she found de Vaudois at her heels...
Football in 1943 was not quite dead yet. Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange Bowls and the East-West Shrine game still remain to be played, a dozen or more All-America teams to be picked. The first important one was published this week by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, after polling 86 sportswriters. Its features: five Marines, five Notre Dame players, only one civilian (Notre Dame's Creighton Miller, who was discharged from the Army for high blood pressure). The lineup...
...love has reared their earthly shrine, Their glory be forever thine...
Somberly, the little man with venom in his heart went home. At midnight, his mind was made up. In the way prescribed by the rigid samurai code, Nakano purified himself with cold water, donned a new kimono, knelt on a pillow before a small shrine. With a sure hand, he plunged a dagger into his belly, drew it across, then turned it upwards...
Marie Corelli, best-seller of the '90s (The Sorrows of Satan), was so sure of her literary immortality that she willed that her Stratford-on-Avon estate be preserved as a shrine-"the home of a great English novelist." Preparations were begun last week, 19 years after her death, to auction the place off because royalties from the Corelli books have not been enough to maintain it. With it goes a genuine gondola which she imported (with a gondolier) from Venice...