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...General George C. Marshall's funeral, airship the developed film from Washington to Minneapolis that same night? The A.P. could and did. Next morning at 10:20, right on schedule, five big Star presses rolled. On Page One: a five-column, four-color picture showing the flag-draped casket and its uniformed pallbearers, the pearl-grey columns of Washington Cathedral, the green trees and the blue...
...Road. In St. George's, West Indies,'the Anglo-American Funeral Agency offered a free case of whisky with each "de luxe, custom-built casket...
Dressed in solemn black, Ty's widow, Debbie, sat beside the open casket and held her husband's hand while the organ played Irving Berlin's I'll Be Loving You Always. Cinemactor Cesar Romero eulogized his pal: "He was a beautiful man. He was beautiful outside, and he was beautiful inside. Rest well, my friend." Actress Loretta Young caused a stir in the chapel by arriving in Oriental makeup from a stint before TV cameras. Outside, there were loud cheers for Yul Brynner, Ty's replacement as Solomon. "Look at him," one woman shouted...
...morning coat and grey trousers he always affected on high occasions, laced a rosary in his hands, and around his waist tied the knotted white cord of the Third Order of St. Francis. Boston politicians draped City Hall in crape and half-staffed flags; they carried the casket to the Statehouse, where it rested three days with a policemen's guard around the bier and 100,000 filing past. Whispered one old lady: "If the Good Lord had made a pact with Curley and given him a choice between this here and a little more time on earth, Curley...
There was another way of looking at the mess of bodies, tears and coal dust up in Springhill, Nova Scotia last week. The casket trade in the Maritime Provinces, which are economically depressed, rose sharply. The coffee-donut market was brisk as newspapermen arrived from the city. (There are no saloons in Nova Scotia.) The telephone company worked overtime to string up extra lines so the press could transmit its wirephoto of Canada living in the early 19th century. That picture was about the only good thing that ever came out of Springhill...