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...Republican-City Fusion ticket. In his district, Vito was an indefatigable favordoer; in Washington, a slavish follower of the Communist Party line. Finally beaten by a 1950 Democratic-Republican-Liberal coalition, he still remained powerful and popular in his district, drew 20,000 mourners to his bier. His funeral was conducted by a Methodist minister, because the Roman Catholic Church refused him burial on the ground that he had not practiced his religion for many years...
...object turned out to be a sculptured slab, 6 ft. 5½ in. by 2 ft. 3 in., showing the dead Christ laid out on a rough, shrouded bier awaiting entombment. In the tragic dignity of the recumbent figure and in the calm anguish of the face, the sculptor had achieved a work of striking realism; the body lies alone with none to mourn it, and the effect is one of infinite loneliness. Art experts called the statue a first-rate example of Renaissance sculpture, and archaeologists pronounced it "one of the major archaeological finds made in London during this...
...mile-long funeral procession at Mantua, Nuvolari's bier rested on a flag-draped car chassis, pushed by some of modern racing's greatest names-Alberto Ascari, Luigi Villoresi, Juan Fangio. They buried II Maestro's scarred body, its bones marred by countless fractures, in his gay racing togs, his favorite detachable steering wheel at his side...
...final sequences take on epic proportions as the weapons carrier on which Gandhi's body lies is slowly pulled for five hours by men with ropes through a surging crowd in the streets of New Delhi, while planes shower his bier with rose petals. Then, after his body has been burned on a funeral pyre of bricks and sandalwood sticks, the ashes are scattered on the sacred waters where the Jumna and Ganges meet. One brief, vivid shot shows most of the material possessions that the frail little man in the white loincloth left behind him: sandals and spectacles...
...very interesting photograph . . . Beria and Malenkov, at the forefront, are merely grasping the bier handles, almost at arm's length, while Molotov is clearly out of step . . . Could it be that some unseen slaves, hidden behind the "bier curtain," are doing the real work...