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...Protestantism's most celebrated ministers last week came an honor long past due. Affable, handsome, internationally known Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, 66, president of New York's Union Theological Seminary, was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Church...
...Detroit's Masonic Temple, 450 commissioners attended the church's 155th General Assembly. After listening to speeches for Dr. Coffin and for his rival, Dr. George H. Talbott, pastor of the First Church of Passaic, N.J., they voted: Coffin 291; Talbott...
...temporary tracks and trucks travel until late in the spring across the rotten ice. The most eloquent shots are those of the people: in Leningrad's streets death is so commonplace that no one turns to look at a small boy dragging a sled with a coffin...
BURY ME NOT- William Francis- Morrow ($2). This rowdily amusing exercise in the prevention of body snatching, featuring a corpse that found its coffin too confining, will please readers of hardy sensibilities...
...shortage to end all shortages loomed up last week when New York and Washington undertakers hurriedly conferred over an acute shortage of coffins. Some said the supply would last only six weeks, others thought about four months. The trouble began last summer when WPB banned metal coffins, forced all manufacturers to wood. Since then things have gone from bad to worse-coffin makers cannot get standard woods like walnut, mahogany or redwood, must use soft pine and poplar. New kilns for wood drying are not available ; coffin workers are romping off to war plants (one Pennsylvania outfit has already lost...