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...other than as a good-will gesture toward what remains of France. Marshal Petain, 84, brought up in the Catholic faith, has never been renowned for his devotion. Once he said that he would rather be buried in the battlefield of Verdun than in the hallowed ground of a churchyard...
...Wall Street's head, in sun-flecked Trinity churchyard, lies the dust of Capt. James Lawrence beneath his self-written epitaph: "Don't Give Up the Ship." Dead with him is the naval tradition of wooden ships and iron men, of boarding parties and the cutlass: the soul of the new navy is in intricate organization, in armorplate, in complex fire-control mechanisms and in 16-inch guns...
...weeks the Neanderthal brow of Tammany Congressman Sol Bloom had been furrowed. Now he was beaming. Only yesterday he had discovered what he had been looking for: the grave of one Brockholst Livingston (1757-1823), in Manhattan's Trinity Churchyard. Sol Bloom stumped into the marble vastness of the U. S. Supreme Court brimming with his good news: that he had spotted the grave of every last Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...morning last week Trinity's churchyard at the head of Wall Street slept humidly under a blazing sun, while some 250 men-public utilitarians, newsmen, drawling politicians from Tennessee-met on the sixth floor of Manhattan's First National Bank. They were there to witness an epochal surrender; the Appomattox of the six-year fight by Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s shaggy, barrel-chested President Wendell Lewis Willkie to stave off public ownership of public utilities in the Tennessee River Valley...
...heroes represented, the hyphen in Czechoslovakia became alarmingly noticeable. One hero was the late Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, the father of a united Czechoslovakia. On his birthday (it would have been his 89th), thousands of Czechs, mostly peasants in national costume, trudged to his grave in a little country churchyard 20 miles from Prague. There they silently prayed that the four eggs he put into the CzechoSlovakian basket (Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpatho-Ukraine) might not be any further broken...