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...Senator Robinson's old friends, Undertaker Martin Wellington Hysong. Two weeks ago the Senator was there for dinner. Last week his body was brought to the undertaking rooms two floors below where he had dined. He was dressed in his frock coat and encased in a copper casket stippled over with silver which was stood in the same gloomy corner where the caskets of Senator Walsh and Senator Fletcher stood not long ago. The next morning 15 Senators led by Assistant Leader Barkley appeared at Hysong's. By orders of Mrs. Robinson nobody was to see the body...
Next morning Widow Ewilda Gertrude Miller Robinson arrived and gazed her last on Joe Robinson whom she had married 40 years before when she was a backwoods belle and he a 24-year-old lawyer beginning to make good in Lonoke. Behind the casket stood a bank of palms ordered by Bernard Baruch, over it a blanket of orchids, gardenias, gladioli and delphinium, also from Mr. Baruch who had ordered $500 worth of flowers...
...noon Joe Robinson's casket stood on the floor of the Senate only a few feet from his empty desk. The President and his Cabinet occupied a group of chairs at the left of the Senate aisle. On the right sat the widow, family and friends including Mr. Baruch and Harvey Couch, the Arkansas utility tycoon. Senators, Representatives, Justice Pierce Butler representing the Supreme Court, Army, Navy & Marine officers, diplomats jammed the chamber. A soprano sang Lead, Kindly Light, the Reverend ZeBarney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, read the funeral service. The Reverend James Shera Montgomery, chaplain...
...body of Miss Harlow lay on a couch in the Tennyson Room of Pierce Brothers Mortuary, Hollywood's largest. A portrait of the author of In Memoriam and a volume of his verse were arranged, as usual, nearby. In a "very beautiful but not overly expensive casket" purchased by the late star's mother, Mrs. Jean Bello, Miss Harlow's remains were taken to Forest Lawn Memorial Park's Wee Kirk o' the Heather, a nondenominational shrine in the nation's most extraordinary cemetery, which has become, in the last decade, the Valhalla...
...artificial respirator is a casket-like steel box 74 in. long, 65 in. high, 44 in. wide. At the front end is a rubber ruff through which Fred Snite's head projects face up, like a mystic's dream of bodiless intelligence. Within, on a sheeted mattress, lies his flaccid, wasted body covered with a night dress...