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Franciscan order.* In the refectory, brown-robed friars reminded each other last week that years ago-when Princess Maria, little sister of Princess Giovanna, was desperately ill, Giovanna had come to Assisi to make her novena, had sworn that if Maria recovered she, Giovanna, would be married at the tomb of St. Francis under the walls made glorious by Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), greatest of "primitive" mural painters...
...gothic builders of Assisi built two churches to St. Francis, one on top of the other. Princess Giovanna decreed last week that her marriage should take place not in the larger, airier upper church, but in the lower, holier one beneath, whose high altar covers the saint's tomb...
...President Herbert Hoover ever wants to dedicate the $800,000 tomb of Warren Gamaliel Harding at Marion, Ohio, he will have to go, cap in hand, to the Harding Memorial Association and humbly beg its permission. The association is through importuning him to participate in a ceremony for which he apparently has no stomach...
During the visit, while sound cameras buzzed expectantly, Prince Umberto had arrived at the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier to lay a wreath. Pistol Man de Rosa wiggled his way through surrounding guards, fired two ineffectual shots, was immediately knocked senseless. Almost as though he had expected the shots, Prince Umberto coolly proceeded with his wreath laying. The affair looked strange to reporters when it occurred. Last week as the trial progressed, it looked stranger still...
...Fayette, we are here" was not said by General Pershing, but by Col. Charles E. Stanton speaking for his chief at La Fayette's tomb...