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...group of raiders, National Casket Co., biggest firm in its field, looked like a golden opportunity. As a company director pointed out: "A man could liquidate this company and make millions." Last week, at its annual meeting, National Casket fought off just such a raid in one of the strangest proxy wars in years. A month ago, a firm of Manhattan lawyers acting for an unidentified group suddenly offered to buy 32,000 shares of the company's 63,370 shares of common stock. The price: $48.50 per share, $8.50 more than the market price...
This year Radio Evangelist Michaux. who calls his sect the "Gospel Spreading Association," produced five Spectaculars. At the first (Memories of the Cross), the devil was buried in a glass casket with full funeral rites. At the second (The Heart of My Lord Was Broken for Me), an electrical bleeding heart spilled crimson liquid on twelve female "penitent sinners" while the choir sang Fountain Filled with Blood. The third (Jesus...
...much funnier-because its murderers were so lovable. Arsenic, again, used murder as a basis for all sorts of insane complications, where The Honeys just strings along with the idea of murder itself. What with having two corpses, The Honeys may not quite put all its eggs in one casket, but corpse-making is far too much on the agenda. When people aren't actually attempting murder, they are making good, bad and indifferent jokes about it. The play, at its best, is very entertaining. But even death can cease to seem hilarious after a while...
Twenty minutes later they found him, 75 yards up the road. He had been killed by a Communist land mine.* In Hanoi, while a military honor guard stood by his casket, the French northern-front commander, General René Cogny, awarded a posthumous Croix de Guerre with palm leaf to Robert Capa, 40, the first U.S. correspondent to be killed in the Indo-China war. Said Cogny: "He fell like a soldier. He deserves a soldier's honors...
...bereaved family and other mourners were gathered one day last week around a gravesite in National Memorial Park cemetery, near Falls Church, Va. across the Potomac from Washington. Suddenly, as the rabbi bowed his head in prayer, a raucous blast of hillbilly music disrupted the burial ceremony. As the casket was lowered into the earth, it was accompanied by another chorus of mooing mountain music. Afterward, when 20 shocked and weeping mourners protested, Robert F. Marlowe, proprietor of National Memorial Park, was sorry but not surprised. The hillbilly music was just another episode in a running battle between Frank Curtin...