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...Coffin Tacks. At least twice before...
...modest funeral, without speeches and without flowers..." The nation he had inspired planned it differently. The plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem which had been renamed the Givat Herzl...
...exile. But after the ceremony was over, most Israelis seemed too busy building their new country to be emotional about the prophet's return. The attitude of brisk irreverence was expressed by one Tel Aviv paper which ran a cartoon showing a man kneeling before Herzl's coffin. "Why do you weep?" a friend asks him. "This is a day of rejoicing." "I am not weeping," answers the man with the bowed head. "I am looking for my glasses...
Lena and her son Yaakov last week walked behind Meyer's coffin in solemn procession through Jerusalem, for Meyer Tobiansky was being reburied with military honors. His widow's hair had turned grey since last spring; her friends suddenly returned to her side, but she greeted them with unforgiving silence. She was bitter about the army and the press which had convicted and condemned her husband, but of Ben-Gurion she said: "He is a good...
Baker, William Whitney, Jr. '50, Brown, Ernest Burton '50, Everett, Henry Coffin, 3d '49, Galle, Gernnaro Peter '51, Gibson, Roland Jerrold '51, Gilbert, David Hillary '50, Croshong, David Lewis '49, Hamblett, David Coombs '49 (Captain), Kenter, Jerry '51, Lawrence, William Gordon '50 Leeming, Joseph, 3d '50, Lockett, Andrew Moore, 3d, '50, McCormick, Patrick Benjamin Michael '50, Nordlinger, Louis Maurice '50, Ruby, Albert Francis, Jr. '50, Trimble, Donald Edward '50, Walsh, Joseph Michael '51, Ward, Lawrence William '50, Welch, Richard Skeflington '51, White, Richard Manning '51, Williams, George Huntington...