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...friends had persuaded the police and other authorities that he was still alive. "It is Roger Lamy, in the flesh and standing before me," Roger's old boss had thundered tellingly to the captain of gendarmes. "He can no longer be considered to be in that coffin of yours." The captain agreed, but it was much too late to call off the funeral. In honor of the great day, one of the cafés gave Roger a free breakfast. Roger set off for the cemetery. As one old friend after another recognized him, there were many touching embraces...
...funeral procession rolled through the undulating corn country from Winnebago to Sioux City. At the grave an American Legion firing squad fired the traditional three volleys of the military burial service. The service ended when Evelyn Rice was given the flag that had draped her husband's coffin...
...after all the mourners had gone, a cemetery official asked a strange question: "Was that boy an Indian?" While the coffin still rested above the grave, he explained that the cemetery articles of incorporation restrict it to "members of the Caucasian race." The body was taken back to the mortuary...
...Cord (U.S.): "A solemn expression of streamlining" with "a coffin-shaped hood . . .[suggesting] the driving power of a fast fighter plane...
Young Vasily marched behind his mother's coffin on the slow parade from Red Square to Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery. Her friends saw a thin, undersized eleven-year-old with close-cropped hair. He had been closer to his mother than to his doting but busy father; Nadezhda liked to say that he was a "real dzhigit...