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...since the greatest number of people who had ever looked upon the same corpse marched for five days in sub-zero weather past the bier of LENIN in Moscow had there been such a funeral as Raditch's. Result of his death: Croatian opposition to the rule of King Alexander has markedly decreased...
...phlebitis which necessitated the amputation of his leg in 1929; in Brussels. Onetime (1919-22) conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, violin teacher for more than 15 years in the Brussels Conservatoire, his pupils included Elisabeth Queen of the Belgians, who went in grief to lay a wreath upon his bier...
Beard In Hoboken, long-bearded Kupper Bier, 109, died of pneumonia plus the shock of burns sustained in a beard-fire which sprang up when he lit a cigar stub...
...minutes, then turns on his heel, departs. His Excellency behaved thus a little over a year ago on the death of Marshal Luigi Cadorna, Italy's Wartime Commander-in-Chief, disastrously defeated at the battle of Caporetto (1917). Last week he gave his mortuary salute again at the bier of Minister of Public Works Michele Bianchi, first of the Quadrumvirs (Fascist corps commanders of the famed March on Rome of October...
...Suss) which is extolled by its readers as the rich, devious history of a master of aggrandizement, a luxurious pageant of 18th Century Swabia, teeming with personalities. Actor Maurice Moscovitch, once famed in Manhattan's Yiddish theatres and more recently in London, has a few moments over the bier of his daughter when his voice is moving with tragic cadences. But you cannot forget that this is merely splendid histrionism, embellishing a void...