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Fascist orders concerning the funeral of Quadrumvir Bianchi were that there was to be no music in the procession but the rolling of oilcloth-muffled drums, no flowers on the coffin or at the grave except two wreaths, one from the King, one from Il Duce. Wreath money, it was ordered, should be given to charities in Calabria, home of Quadrumvir Bianchi...
...actual funeral last week the King's wreath, if it lay upon the coffin, was completely obscured by a floral tribute 18¾ feet in circumference, inscribed only with the two words in giant capitals BENITO MUSSOLINI. To make up for the King's oblivion there walked beside Il Duce in the funeral procession a figure never before seen at a Fascist function, sleek white-bearded Johann Schober, Chancellor of Austria...
...Chicago, I. J. Zolt, undertaker, went to court because Mrs. Helen Courtney Pett had not paid him for burying her husband. Said Superior Judge David: "You can go to the cemetery where the body is buried and take the shroud from the corpse, remove the coffin, and leave the body to the tender mercies of the Almighty...
...expedition unearthed the mummy of Meryet-Amun, more than 3,000 years old, despoiled by robbers, but still in a decent state of preservation. Queen Meryet-Amun (1480-40 B.C.) died soon after her coronation. Her body was prepared and wrapped in many thicknesses of bandage. The inner coffin which covered her corpse was decorated, according to Egyptian ritual, with a replica of her body. On the forehead was the tenon hole which had held the stolen vulture-head coronet, symbol of queenly power. The outer coffin, masterpiece of joiner's art, at one time encased in gold sheets...
...clay must have stuck to the murderer's clothes, but he got away! He got away!" the detective'pretends to gloat, then screams as he throws back the lid of the coffin, "AND HERE IS MARIA HAHN!"-or Ida Reuter, or whoever he had been talking about. As the coffin flew open a powerful jack-in-the-box mechanism would cause the blood-stained body of the girl-victim to sit bolt upright-or such was the effect of a life-size wax dummy doing duty for the corpse...