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...Maybe you can do something about flying over congested areas at low for experimental purposes. . . .[My child's] little coffin was covered with flowers . . . but not a single word of condolence, not one little flower . . . came from the United States Army...
...morning came the Pope's blessing on this agnostic ex-Socialist father and a brief service for the son. Then the coffin, buried pro tempore under wreaths, was taken off to be buried under the soil of Predappio, on one of the little Romagna hillsides where the Mussolinis, the makers of muslin, had always lived. But before he left Pisa, Benito Mussolini went to talk with the five injured survivors. One unwittingly asked how Bruno...
...plaintiff dug up the coffin in which her Wilson Strickland had been buried, took the rotted wood to court, tried to prove that it had come from a Mongomery County pine tree. Most amazing witness was Mrs. Anne Stuart Snow, a Strickland descendant from Lewisville, Ark., who testified that her family's Bible had been destroyed by fire in 1896 when she was eleven years old. She said she recalled 160 pictures and biographies in the Bible, described the photographs in detail, said that Wilson Strickland's picture had been torn out of the lower left-hand corner...
...others had been added to Crespin's list. Best-sellers are the Maurois book, 15,000 copies; Jules Romains's rather naive Sept Mystères du Destin de l'Europe, 9,000; Jacques Maritain's A Travers le Désastre, 8,000; Robert Coffin's Le Roi des Beiges, atil Trahi?, 4,000. Scheduled for publication soon are books by Maritain (on Saint Paul), Emil Ludwig (on German history), Stefan Zweig (on Brazil). He has published new novels by Romains and Julian Green...
...beach. Bitter bathhouse owners called them "drippers" because they dripped on the subways going home. Recently New York's famed and inexorable Park Commissioner Robert Moses estimated that on a jampacked Sunday each person at Coney had about 16 square feet of beach-enough for a coffin...