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...cold morning in Moscow, 38 years ago today, a mixture of snow and rain soaking the mourners, John Reed's coffin was laid to rest next to the Kremlin Wall--alongside those who had given their lives for the Bolshevik Revolution...
...Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, were not "laid simply" away. Before the great altar in St. Peter's, where only the Pope may say Mass, the body of Pius XII lay in state for three days. Then, after final absolution, it was placed in a triple coffin (oak, lead and cypress) and interred in the most sacred spot in Christendom-below the Bernini altar near St. Peter's supposed grave, whose discovery the Pope himself announced in 1950. Buried with the Pope was a red bag containing a sample of every Vatican coin minted during...
Married. Eric Ambler, 49, London-born movie scenarist (The Cruel Sea), topnotch writer of international-intrigue thrillers (A Coffin for Dimitrios, Cause for Alarm); and Joan Harrison, about 45, blonde, brainy TV producer (Alfred Hitchcock Presents); he for the second time, she for the first; in San Francisco...
...Coffin, 39, handily won re-election to Congress as predicted. ¶ In the downstate First District, James C. ("Big Jim") Oliver, 63, a onetime G.O.P. isolationist, Coughlinite and Townsendite turned Democrat, defeated eight-term Republican Robert Hale by 3,000 votes to give Democrats two of Maine's three congressional seats. (Hale had squeaked by with only in votes...
...Ghosts & Coffin Carriers. On grounds that the burning of joss paper constitutes a fire hazard and that the houses are a menace to health, the Singapore city council recently decided that the houses must be moved out of the center of town. But last week the perplexed council members were finding that this was more easily decreed than done. One new site proposed by the council proved to be so near a cemetery that professional coffin carriers would have less distance to travel, and would lose revenue. In the other new location proposed by the council, prosperous citizens were complaining...