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...proposed title for this new national body: the Genuine Japan Christian Church. Equally significant was the date which the Government set for the union: Oct. 17, the day on which Emperor Hirohito, himself considered a god by his subjects, dispatches a messenger to Ise to offer prayers at the shrine of his ancestress, Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess and founder of the Japanese Empire...
...sensation, when seven Japanese Salvation Army chiefs were among those arrested, gave the Government an excuse to change its mind, declare that Christian activities, like every other phase of Japanese life, "must conform to the new national structure" in order to contribute to Japan's "cooperative Asia." Shrine v. Cross. No U. S. churchman objects to the principle that Japanese converts should control Japanese Christianity...
...because Bulgaria was submitting to Axis pressure and not demanding the whole of Dobruja and therefore a common frontier with Russia. Bulgarians and Rumanians worked meantime on details of their Axis-sponsored agreement. One detail on which the Bulgarians were reported to have been softhearted: they agreed that the shrine where the heart of Queen Marie reposes should be surrounded by a little plot of land which would still, and forever, be Rumania...
...years pilgrims have gone to the No.1 U. S. summer music shrine, the Berkshire Symphonic Festival, to admire the precision of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the benevolent tyranny of its greying conductor, Serge Koussevitzky. This year, besides the festival, Tanglewood houses a new project also dear to Koussevitzky, the Berkshire Music Center, intended to be a top-flight summer school for musicians...
...Yankees. When he was with War ners, Brown organized and coached a semiprofessional studio ball team, had it specified in his contract that all players would be kept on the payroll as long as himself. A middle-aged Frank Merriwell, he neither drinks nor smokes, maintains a sporting shrine in his Brentwood home near Hollywood. Among the trophies on display in the shrine are the gloves Dempsey used to knock out Willard, the shoes Paddock wore when he broke the 100-yard dash record, the bat Babe Ruth employed when he knocked out his 60th home run in one season...