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...rich, sensuous canvases became as famous as the poems he wrote to go with them. Rossetti had married the beautiful Elizabeth who for years had served as model for the dreamy, giraffe-necked ladies he painted. When his wife died Rossetti buried his book of unpublished verses in her coffin. Years later he had to exhume his wife's coffin to recover them. Laboriously deciphering the words on the worm-eaten pages, he presented the poems to a public pre-thrilled by their funereal history...
...U.S.A., President Joseph C. Robbins of the Northern Baptist Convention, Douglas Horton, Secretary and Minister of the Congregational-Christian Churches, Quaker Frank Aydelotte, "Y" General Secretary Eugene Epperson Barnett, 16 college and seminary presidents (headed by Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds and Union's Henry Sloane Coffin), ten Methodist bishops, five Episcopal bishops, and such other ecclesiastic bigwigs as John R. Mott, Reinhold Niebuhr, Edgar DeWitt Jones, Roy G. Ross, Daniel A. Poling...
...COFFIN FOR THE CORPSE-Clayfon Rawson-Little, Brown & Co. ($2). A rich spiritualism devotee sees the ghost of a blackmailer he slugged and buried, and is later himself found slain in the locked and weaponless room of a Mamaroneck mansion. Merlini, an ex-magician with a vast fund of illusionistic lore and rare deductive skill, enters the case to help a much-involved reporter friend and remains to produce a subtle and unsuspected slayer. Superabundant-and engrossing- data about spirits, fakirs and magic slightly retard the movement of an otherwise excellent story...
...thought never occurred to them that they might soon be slaves of Nazi Germany. A few days ago a large section of the Cairo fire brigade, dressed in the finest robes, marched through the streets before and behind a shiny red hose wagon, on which rested a bedecked coffin...
...Nazis could not do enough for Hangman Reinhard Heydrich. His bomb-gutted body was borne through torchlit streets; it lay in state in gabled Prague Castle. Four Black Shirts stood as a guard of honor at each of the four corners of a coffin scarred by a huge swastika. In courtyards and alleyways the volleys of retributory gunfire were like the spitting of angry cats. At each spatter another Czech fell. In ten days the Germans admitted 216 Czechs shot. But that was not good enough...