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...civil cemetery of the Federal District of Mexico in a grey steel casket went the body of Leon Trotsky. It was taken out of the casket, placed on a heavy steel cart. The cart was wheeled to a huge crematory, the door was opened, the body pushed in. The glare from the open door of the furnace shone with ghastly brilliance on the faces of Trotsky's three bodyguards, on duty to the end, of his attorney, Albert Goldman, and of the small, meek, devoted woman who had lived with him as wife and servant for 38 years...
...black casket of the only millionaire on the Court rested beneath six wavy-flamed candles in the gloom of St. Matthews Church, the man most mentioned last week as Pierce Butler's successor could jingle all his wealth in his jeans at any time. Frank Murphy, once Mayor of Detroit, High Commissioner to the Philippines, now Attorney General of the U. S., was freely nominated by the Palace Janizariat to Butler's seat before the black drapes were placed there...
...floral pieces for gangster funerals, a highly lucrative trade. O'Banion said he hated Wops. One November noonday three men came to his shop, riddled him with bullets and left him sprawling on a pile of ferns. Among the tributes around O'Banion's $10,000 casket was a basket of roses tagged: "From...
...visitors saw a 9 by 9 by 16 in. leaden casket, graven with abbreviations unmistakably referring to "Cristoval Colon, Almirante" (see cut). Inside it when last opened were once-human bone & dust, a bullet presumably fired into Columbus during some fracas before he sailed for the New World...
...wish, in the chapel of her beloved country Castle Balcic overlooking the Black Sea, a mauve-lined silver casket containing the heart of the late Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania was enshrined...