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...State of Parahyba was killed in a Pernambuco candy store fortnight ago by an adherent of José Pereira, rebellious Parahyba State Deputy who has been waging civil war in the interior of Parahyba for five-and-a-half months (TIME, Aug. 11). Joao Pessoa lay in his coffin eleven days and nights and none dared bring him home for fear that the arrival of his coffin would start riots in the chief cities of Parahyba. Joao Pessoa was buried last week, not in Parahyba where he lived, or in Pernambuco where he died, but in Rio de Janeiro...
Joao Pessoa, assassinated President (Governor) of the State of Parahyba, lay in his coffin in Recife, State of Pernambuco last week and no one dared take him home. News of his death, escaping over foreign cables, lifted one corner of the veil of secrecy which has shrouded affairs in Parahyba since January...
...week was: "Who could have wanted to kill Buckley?" Such was his popularity among hundreds of Detroiters for whom he obtained jobs during last winter's depression, and among an increasing radio audience, that his home was deluged with flowers, more than 100,000 viewed his coffin. His brother Paul, onetime assistant prosecuting attorney, declared roundly that the killing was simply brutal retaliation for Buckley's activities against the Bowles administration...
...Instead, three days later, while his body lay before the altar, and holy men chanted the Office of the Dead, the Abbe suddenly awoke and sat up in his coffin...
...Skokloster. To his funeral came Sweden's King, Crown Prince, Prime Minister and a delegation of Swedish nobles. With bowed heads nobles and peasants stood in the ancient chapel of Castle Skokloster while Archbishop Söderblom of Stockholm read the funeral service. Came a pause. Then up to the coffin strode Sweden's brawny Master of Heraldry. With a dramatic gesture he seized the ancient black-winged wooden escutcheon of the Brahe family, broke it in two across the coffin as a sign that no Swede will ever bear those arms again. Last to leave the crypt was Archbishop...