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Habeas Corpus. In St. Louis, Mortician August Kron Jr. confessed to police that "relatives would not put out the money for the funeral," led them to the basement where the embalmed body of a woman had lain in an open wooden casket for 40 years...
...story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told." Said General Eisenhower: "All of us here have lost one of our best and most understanding friends." The G.I.s he wrote about paid their respects too. On Ie Jima, Corporal Landon Seidler fashioned a handmade wooden casket for him. Soldiers nailed Pyle's dogtags on the top, and buried him on le beside the G.I. dead. For the spot where he had fallen, Corporal Seidler carved a wooden plaque: "At this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy-Ernie Pyle-18 April...
Mexican Cinemactor Jorge Negrete bowed his head over the casket to pronounce the last eulogy. "Lupe, our friend," he said, "you are being lowered into the ground of your homeland." Nobody heard...
...rain fell toward evening, gleaming wetly on hundreds of umbrellas, but the patient, silent crowds shuffled on-soldiers, old women, Negroes, bobby-sox girls, prominent citizens. When the doors were finally closed, 200,000 men & women, of every faith and from every station of life, had passed the bronze casket...
...organ's first notes trembled into the hush, began the solemn and ancient pageantry with which the Roman Catholic Church sends its kings, its great men, its princes of the clergy from this world. The East Side's Al Smith lay below the sanctuary, in a shrouded casket on a catafalque flanked by six tall, flickering candles. The altar before it was bright with the purple garb of bishops and the monsignori...