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...flowers, no music, no women-such was the Spartan order of the day in the U. S. Embassy at Paris last week, when three most solemn funeral orations were pronounced over the flag-draped coffin of Myron Timothy Herrick of Cleveland, beloved and glamor-crowned Ambassador. Greatly impressed by the fact that the late Marshal Ferdinand Foch ordered "No flowers!" (TIME, April 1), Mr. Herrick said when his own death drew nigh, "I also want no flowers...
...Champs! The coffin was carried from the Embassy to an open hearse, while a French infantry band played Aux Champs! (To the Fields!)-the sad yet stirring air which moved so many at the funeral of Marshal Foch...
Because the coffin was going to be conveyed from Brest to Manhattan on the French cruiser Tourville, and because women are positively not allowed on French warships, Mrs. Parmely Herrick sped by a different route to Cherbourg, caught the Aquitania...
...Orleans, Stevedore Vito Longo, 55, taxied to an undertaking shop, had himself fitted for a high-priced coffin, paid for it, drove on to a cemetery to make sure the casket would neatly sink into a certain tomb, returned to the mortuary, stayed there. His wife and sons could not explain his suicide...
...reports said that Floyd Collins had been stolen from his coffin, traced by bloodhounds, and discovered in a burlap sack about 400 yards from the cave. Editors pondered because Floyd Collins, martyr, was a creation of the Press. The Press must be true to its own. What...