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Family Business. In St. Louis, a loading zone permit for the Central Casket Co. was taken out by H. S. Coffin...
...Whose Coffin Plan? Another McHale client is seeking Government payment for a product it didn't make. This is the Alliance (Ohio) Seamless Casket Co., which claims it developed a new kind of coffin for reburial of American servicemen killed overseas in World War II. It admits that it has no patent, had no contract with and produced no caskets for the Government. The case presented by McHale: the Government saved $12,575,000 by adopting Alliance specifications and giving them to other manufacturers...
...They cut through solid marble to make his grave, and yet a little tombstone they put above him was from Vermont. They buried him in the heart of a pine forest, and yet the pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought...
ABBOT R. "DICK" COFFIN Winthrop, Mass...
...arrangement of Negro art. In order to recover their youth, the elite of our civilization, who no longer have anything to say . . . have grasped greedily at the art of these alleged savages." ¶ "Abstract painters have betrayed painting and, after killing it, have shut it up in a cubist coffin. Life today hardly allows one to be a painter. Tomorrow it will be even less so. What is painting today? An anachronism...