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...long can a man live in a sealed coffin...
...owed his life to his ability to fall into a cataleptic trance. It was magic; until the trance was at an end he did not breathe. To Fakir Bey, Harry Houdini, trickster, gave the lie, donned blue trunks, a white shirt, a luminous wrist watch, entered an airtight tin coffin equipped with a telephone and electric pushbutton, was lowered to the depth of the Shelton Hotel Pool, Manhattan...
...half hours six strapping men stood on the coffin lid, held it at the bottom of the pool until Mr. Houdini telephoned that he was getting numb. Extricated, too weak to move, he explained that he had conserved his air supply by taking little breaths. His comparative conditions were as follows...
...native in the U. S. army, shot, killed Corporal Antonio Cruzalso. Last week, following President Coolidge's approval of his sentence, Cordero was hanged by the neck until dead. ¶ Three years ago a long, black funeral train crossed this vast continent bearing in sombre state one lone coffin. President Harding was dead. Last week marked the end of the third year since that tragedy-likewise the beginning of the fourth year of Calvin Coolidge's Presidential regime...
Funeral. Mme. Dzerzhinsky, pale, slender, 35, stood by her husband's bier with their son, 15, while the body lay in state for 24 hours in Trade Union House, Moscow. Though exhausted, she retained strength to follow the coffin to Red Square, where it was interred not far from the black marble tomb of Lenin...