Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service was simple, austerely Presbyterian. At Mrs. Janet Dulles' request, eulogies were omitted. At 2:42 the military honor guard standing outside the church snapped to attention and saluted, as servicemen in dress uniform carried the coffin to the hearse...
...family-Mrs. Dulles, two grown sons, a married daughter-sat the President of the U.S., his face set in sadness, and next to him his wife. As the Army band played Hark, Hark, My Soul, servicemen from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard lifted the coffin from the caisson and carried it to the grave. The Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, U.S. secretary of the World Council of Churches, read the burial service: "I am the resurrection and the life . . . Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ..." Nineteen times, saluting cannon fire boomed and echoed...
...passages from the Bible by heart, to revel in family choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Work, for the Night Is Coming. His boyhood heroes were Paul Revere and John Paul Jones, and his favorite authors were G. A. Henty (Among Malay Pirates; Redskins and Colonists) and Charles Carleton Coffin (The Boys...
...University record with a 52 ft., 3 in. heave. Benjamin was a double winner, taking the mile in 4:14.8 and the two-mile in 9:13.0, and Joel Landau won both hurdle races. Sophomore Frank Yoemans emerged as a first-rate dash man, beating Penn's Dave Coffin and Cornell's George Ekstrom with...
Died. Lonnie Alfonso Coffin, M.D., 68, who practiced for 44 years in Farmington, Iowa, received a gold medal last autumn as the American Medical Association's General Practitioner of the Year (TIME, Dec. 15); of a heart attack; in Keokuk...