Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mass at Notre Dame. At the Sorbonne, more than 100 blind delegates from 22 countries assembled for a memorial in Braille's honor. Meanwhile, the citizens of Coupvray performed a ceremony of their own. They unearthed Braille's remains, and, keeping a relic for themselves, sent the coffin to Paris. There, escorted by a column of blind men, each armed with a white cane, Braille's body was finally placed where Frenchmen felt it rightfully belonged-in the Panthéon, France's Westminster Abbey...
Test Case. In Houston, Mickey Martinez jumped into an undertaker's display coffin and lowered the lid, later explained to police: "The satin stuff on the top was nice and soft, but the bottom sure was hard...
...looked "lovely." When he was transferred to submarine school, he tried to have his orders rescinded. But he went, of course. On New Year's Day, 1942, he reported to his new home, U.S.S. Trigger (SS 237). Thought young Beach: "Wonder if I'm looking at my coffin?" Trigger did become a coffin for 89 men and officers in March 1944, but by then, Lieut. Beach had been transferred to another sub. He lived through twelve longdistance war patrols, wound up as skipper of his own sub, today commands the new U.S.S. Trigger. He becomes, in Submarine...
Silver Lining. In Ostend, Belgium, Hospital Patient Jacques Smeets, fearing the worst, bought a coffin from a fellow patient who had unexpectedly recovered, sold it for a $10 profit, when he got well, to a third patient-who also recovered...
...countries to attend the funeral Mass of a friend, French Hero General Henri Coudraux, a deputy chief of staff to SHAPE. Ike followed the old French custom which calls for chief mourners, whether lay or clerical, to dip a silver goupillon in holy water and sprinkle it on the coffin. Later, Ike took to his bed with a throat infection and fever, which further delayed his goodbye tour...