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Television networks covering Washington developments yesterday picked up a Harvard Glee Club-Radcliffe Choral Society concert as background music for several scenes of people filling past, the President's casket in the Capitol rotunda. The Glee Club and Choral Society, accompanied by 20 players from the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, were performing a previously scheduled concert in the Washington National Cathedral...
...Caskets are now "styled" with an eye to customer appeal. Very strong now in casket styles, Miss Mitford writes, is the patriotic theme represented by "the Valley Forge," once advertised in color in an undertaker's trade journal with some Early American cupboards and a portrait of George Washington. For "the bon vivant who dreams of rubbing shoulders with the international smart set, the gay dog who would risk all on a turn of the card, there is the 'Monaco' with 'Sea Mist Polish Finish, interior richly lined in 600 Aqua Supreme Cheney velvet, magnificently quilted...
Under a Pall. Though 90% of U.S. funerals are conducted with open coffins, the clergy are generally opposed. "If they had their way," says Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church, "I think that most ministers would discourage the open casket during funeral services." Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike points out that while a dead body should be treated with respect, Christian doctrine teaches that it is no longer the person, who "in life to come receives a new, appropriate means of expression and relationship...
Bishop Pike, like most Episcopal clergymen, insists that the coffin be closed during the church service and covered with a pall, which makes the most elaborate bronze and silver casket look the same as a plain pine...
...Saturday, the President sat alone in the first pew in a tiny chapel inside the residence of Richard Cardinal Gushing, Archbishop of Boston. The baby lay in a tiny white casket, and the Cardinal read a Mass of the Holy Angels...