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...Packard hearse carried the body of Henry Ford out along Joy Road to the small family cemetery beside a four-lane highway. Henry Ford had never ridden comfortably in any car but one of his own make; he wouldn't have liked it. They lowered the coffin into a hole in the wet, clayey mud. The rain came down in buckets while the police hustled 20,000 sightseers on their way and opened the highway again to traffic. The cars rushed past, filling the night with the smell of gasoline...
This week, as Paul I followed the coffin of George II to its tomb at the royal country estate at Tatoi (demolished by the leftists in 1944), the Greek Government was already speeding up an all-out drive against leftists. Said Paul on taking the crown: "Our eternal country calls upon us to fight for her existence. . . ." Greece had a new King, but its Government's policy was unchanged...
...defeat at the hands of the Boston Lacrosse Club "B" team Saturday afternoon. The Summary: HARVARD BEC Chamberlain, g. Harford, g. Forsyth, pt. Kirkpatrick, pt. McDonald, c.pt. Weaver, c.pt. Spence, ld. Edmunds, ld. Claflin, 2d. Pickson, 2d. Birdsall, c. Goff, c. Zeigler, 2a. Dobservale, 2a. Bezanson, 1a. Coffin, 1a. Davidson, o.h. Clurman, o.h. Aibel, i.h. Wilson...
...omnibus are Robert Louis Stevenson's* famed Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Notting Hill Mystery, written by an unknown disciple of Wilkie Collins, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, in which a deadly vampire lady passes her days snugly in a blood-filled coffin, her nights with her pearly-white incisors sunk gently into a sleeping victim's throat...
With the meet numerically clinched, the Scarlet put the final nail in the coffin before a happy capacity crowd of home rooters by taking not only the final 400-yard relay, and what adds up to their twenty-second straight victory in dual meet competition...