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Next day her family and friends followed her coffin to St. Michel's Roman Catholic Church. Suddenly, the pallbearers began to exchange uneasy glances; the weight of the coffin was shifting for all the world as though someone was moving inside it. They broke into a terrified trot. Inside the church, they set the coffin in the aisle and opened it. They found Alina lying there with her eyes open-dazed but unmistakably alive...
Last week, on the eve of getting his medal, Simon took cold, a day later died. In a dark wood coffin draped with the Union Jack, he was buried in a pet cemetery at Ilford, Essex. A wooden marker at his head bore the epitaph: "In Honored Memory of Simon...
Today The Father, in addition to its pathological excesses, wears a period air. Yet on a watered-down Broadway, a play that is all scorch and bite is worth reviving. Unhappily, last week's revival was more in the nature of a coffin nail. It lacked skill, perception and tension: at its best it could only serve up gall and wormwood as a kind of sizzling platter. As the wife, Mady Christians did, at any rate, sizzle now & then. As the husband, Raymond Massey merely spouted, as if announcing all the terrible things that did not seem...
There was neither minister nor music at the funeral service in Denver last week for Oscar O. Whitenack, 79, who for eight years edited the "Open Forum" column of the Denver Post. When a handful of mourners gathered at the flower-covered coffin they heard the voice of Whitenack himself explaining...
...Chamber of Commerce), the town council agreed to provide separate hearses for the two races. It was unpleasant and unhealthy to contemplate, explained Councilman D. J. Piennar, that a hearse bearing a black corpse to the cemetery might next day be used to carry a white man's coffin...