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...complete set of Fleer Ted Williams cards, all autographed highlights the three wall shrine dotted with framed newspapers and magazine covers marking milestones in the Splendid Splinter's career. Perhaps the most valuable item is Ted Williams official birth certificate, which Kelly secured through "intricate methods." Williams himself plans to stop in later this summer. Kelly says, because among other things, be wants to see the clock with his portrait on it. "It's one of the things he's never seen." Kelly explains...
...followers of the populist policies of the late Dictator Juan Perón wanted to gain political capital from the major papal appearance of the day. That was an afternoon Mass at the venerable basilica of Our Lady of Luján, the nation's most sacred Marian shrine, 40 miles west of Buenos Aires. The Peronists had distributed leaflets through the capital and other cities with exhortations calling EVERYONE TO LUJÁN . . . WELCOME JOHN PAUL II ... THE POPE AND PERÓN ARE AS ONE GREAT HEART . . . EVITA IS A SAINT. As it turned out, with more...
...600th anniversary of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, even if martial law is still in force when he arrives, just as he wanted to go to Britain despite the supposedly insurmountable diplomatic problems. Last week Archbishop Herbert Bednorz of Katowice stirred speculation by telling 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Poland that the Pope wants the internment centers closed, but if they are not closed when he visits, he will simply include them in his itinerary. The Polish government is known to be cool to the trip, and could prevent it from happening...
...proclaimed Le Français "America's greatest restaurant." Almost from the day it opened in 1973, the nation's growing cadres of gourmets and gourmands have been journeying to Le Français, "like dedicated pilgrims," observed one Chicago critic, "on their way to a shrine." The cost of dinner for two with only a modest wine can run more than $150. But Le Français regularly attracts a crowd of 120 to 150 people a night, and there is often a six-week waiting list for a reservation...
Thus, last Thursday morning, when he marked the anniversary with a special Mass before 500,000 pilgrims gathered on the esplanade in front of the shrine, the Pope had a second escape to be grateful for. His words were somber, as if reflecting the violence of the night before as well as the "menace of evil" he saw spreading through the world. He called on the Madonna for deliverance "from famine and war . . . from sin against the life of man from its very beginning . . . from hatred . . . from every kind of injustice in the life of society." He asked for prayers...