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...Following his release by kidnappers William Franklin Gettle (TIME, May 24), well-to-do Los Angeles homebody, let himself be shown off to civic organizations, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William...
...last year the croupiers and other attendants took a cut. Nevertheless, the Beach Club has been sufficiently profitable to permit Edward Riley Bradley, first citizen of Palm Beach and a devout Catholic, to build a magnificent church one block away. Its realistic donor was not displeased when the shrine was named St. Edward...
...occasion was Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, for His Celestial Highness last week was just three months old, a little round buttonhead of a baby, swaddled and lying on a brocaded pillow in the arms of his nurse. In solemn procession, Prince, pillow and nurse went first to the Koreiden shrine, dedicated to the spirits of the 123 Emperors of Japan who ruled before Emperor Hirohito; then to the Shinden, where they honored the "So myriad" deities of Shintoism; finally to the Kashikodokoro, the shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of the imperial family...
...Charles Edward Coughlin, radiorator of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, utterly antagonistic to Mrs. Sanger's movement, brought down the house: "The Negroes are out-begetting the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic races in this country. So are the Poles. . . . Distribution is what we need. There aren't enough hungry mouths in this country to consume the wheat we raise...
...years passed the community began to dwindle. In 1900 there were only 17 members, in 1920 none. "The Sharon" became a dilapidated catch-all for antiques, including a communion service presented by George Washington. Two groups of self-appointed trustees fought over pos session of the old shrine, took their squabble into court. The State of Pennsylvania, which plans some day to make a park of Ephrata, argued for ousting the trustees on the ground that assets have been mismanaged and the Ephrata charter (1814) had been violated by the suspension of religious services. Last week a county court approved...