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With heart and brains removed, the body of Josef Pilsudski, Dictator of Poland, lay in an oak coffin before the high altar of St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw last week. Outside a drenching cold rain was falling, and so great was the crowd of mourners in the cathedral square that several had their arms broken, dozens were trampled on, scores fainted...
Such a congregation as heard "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" resound from the roof above Bronson Cutting's copper coffin has seldom sat in one church. There were J. P. Morgan* and A. F. of L.'s William Collins, Walter Lippmann and Nicholas Murray Butler, Colonel House and Hiram Johnson, Sir Ronald Lindsay and Norman Thomas, Alice Longworth and Mrs. August Belmont, Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Senator La Follette, the President's mother and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Senator Vandenberg and Isabella Greenway, soft-spoken Spanish Americans and nasal-twanged Yankees, stockbrokers who dwell...
Author Loening stoutly defends Orville Wright in the famed controversy with the Smithsonian Institution over Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Bitterest Loening scorn is reserved for the Wartime Aircraft Production Board headed by Motorman Howard Earle Coffin, whom he accuses of having led a "Detroit conspiracy" in "crafty scheming to wean away aviation from its rightful owners...
...Buffalo, N. Y., as kinsmen of the late Michael Budnik carried his coffin into Queen of the Peace Church for the funeral, the coffin began smoking. The mourners opened the coffin, doused out the flames started by a cigaret that a mourner had dropped before the lid was put on. As the pallbearers carried Michael Budnik up the aisle of the church, the coffin smoked again. Thoroughly drenched, Michael Budnik was buried...
...special express car of the Orient Express, a service which cuts shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...