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...wholesale offensive from the air. But it would be decisive only if it were stepped up in strength and never left to flag. If it languished and died in a few weeks-as such offensives have languished before-it would be no more than a few nails in a coffin still to be built...
...Munch-Club readers: "Elizabeth and Sex by Lytton Scratchy, John Brown's Benny by Steve Brody, The Bridge of San Louis Bromfield by Ray Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League...
After long months the Nazis brought word that Father Mehr had died. Mother and daughter were allowed to attend the funeral, but not to open the coffin to see what was in it. Mother Mehr's mind broke down. Then the Red Cross intervened and got the Mehrs placed on the repatriation list. They were allowed to live in a small hotel on Berlin's outskirts...
...string quartet and a speech by Mayor Joseph J. Kelly, Composer Nuño's body was exhumed and started on its southward flight. In Mexico City a military guard of honor, 300 music conservatory students and a parade of thousands of school children waited to bear the coffin to Mexico's magnificent Monumento de la Revoluti...
...enthusiasm, but soon he was battling with the dramatic leaders of his day. Invited to Westminster Abbey for Shakespearean Actor Sir Henry Irving's funeral, he retorted: "Literature, alas, has no place at his death as it had no place in his life. Irving would turn in his coffin if I came, just as Shakespeare will turn in his coffin when Irving comes...