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...windows showing King Henry II doing penance for the murder of Thomas à Becket in 1170. To save the statue from the fate of the windows, which were destroyed, somebody hid it underground, thus preserved its Renaissance beauty for the 20th century. Eventually, it will be restored to the rebuilt Mercers' chapel, long since a place of worship for the Church of England...
...Cincinnati church building that reverses the long trend away from the business districts and into the suburbs. At a cost of more than $1,100,000, raised by parishioners without the help of any big philanthropist's contribution, 119 year-old Episcopal Christ Church will be razed and rebuilt on its present site (in an architectureal mixture of modern and Gothic), despite the presence of Cincinnati's nearby Skid Row. "This is a city parish," said Senior Warden Charles P. Taft (brother of the late Senator), "and it's going to stay where it belongs-downtown...
...fine, light, top-grain leather, stood close by his speedsters in Palm Beach this week overseeing the work of the Cunningham mechanics. With Le Mans seven weeks away, the cars are in various stages of reassembly. Two of them, veterans of last year's Le Mans, are being rebuilt from the engine blocks up. All their moving parts, and most of their other parts, will be new: pistons, rods, cylinder heads, crankshafts, valves, rings, water pumps, oil filters, distributors...
...pestilence and peace and rumor of the world's destruction, the Benedictines were busy building their hives of holy industry around the world. On Monte Cassino, St. Benedict's greatest monastery, laid waste in World War II for the fourth time in its history, was about rebuilt again. And on 2,500 rolling acres at Collegeville, Minn., about 80 miles northwest of Minneapolis, work was getting under way on a Benedictine abbey which the editor of Liturgical Arts magazine has called "truly a milestone in the evolution of the architecture of the Catholic Church...
...nine weeks Fox cameramen toured Britain, shooting Technicolor background footage of the island's vistas and keeps-Caernarvon, Warwick, Braemar, Eilean Donan and Alnwick (which in the picture serves for Arthur's Camelot). The Scottish village of Dornie, used for a viking stronghold, was mostly rebuilt on the Fox lot for the big siege scene...