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Second and most macabre of the detectives' stratagems was a scene enacted every night last week in the more popular Düsseldorf beer halls. While the clinking of mugs and the chomping of sausages were at their height three black-clad detectives entered, carrying a coffin. Perhaps the orchestra had been playing the German jazz hit of the year: Ich Küsse Deine Hand, Madame! ("I Kiss Your Hand, Madame!")*As one of the detectives clapped his black-gloved hands, the jazz snapped off into thundrous silence...
...Protestant Episcopal Church stands midway between U. S. Catholicism and U. S. Protestantism. Many Protestants, remembering instances of Episcopalian refusal to recognize the validity of other Protestant orders (latest instance: Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning's) forbidding Dr. Karl Reiland to allow Presbyterian Henry Sloane Coffin to officiate at a communion service in an Episcopal church (TIME, Nov. 25), think Episcopalians have no right to call themselves Protestants. Many high-church Episcopalians agree with them, dislike the name Protestant, would like to change their church's name to something like American Catholic.* Last week...
...policy of producing honest dramas heretofore unseen in America, and wisely choses a little known play by a well-known playwright for its fall production. Milne is safe; he raises no over-serious moral issues--although it is hoped that "Success" may drive a few additional nails into the coffin of American Babbitry...
...paid tribute to the memory of France's great fighter with a final magnificent gesture. The dying Clémenceau had expressly enjoined that he be given no state funeral. Scrupulously were his wishes observed. But six days after the sod was tamped down on his simple pine coffin, some 12,000 War veterans marched slowly up the Champs Élysees, paused for an instant to pile flowers on the Unknown Soldier's grave in tribute. Leading the parade were President Doumergue. Prime Minister André Tardieu. Foreign Minister Briand, Marshal Pétain, and one-armed General...
...Gaston de Sonis (1825-87), devout Catholic, daring soldier, veteran of African campaigns and of the War of 1870, was being considered as a candidate for beatification. The ecclesiastical tribunal which sat on his case ordered disinterment of his body. When the body was removed last week from its coffin in the crypt of Loigny Church, where it had lain since 1887, it was reported to be in a "miraculous" state of preservation?no rigor mortis, hair and skin "as natural as in life." General de Sonis Was beatified...