Word: coffining
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Fifty miles from Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island and twice as far from Newfoundland, the islands have passed from the French to Newfoundland to Quebeo. They were one of the last outposts of feudalism in the western world: George III gave them to Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin for services to the Crown, and for a century they paid tribute to Coffin's heirs...
Some will remember Princeton's 9 to 6 victory in Palmer Stadium in 1939 when coffin corner punts stifled the Crimson offensive; some will recall Franny Loe's 88-yard run through the rain and mud in 1941, also in Palmer Stadium, to give the visitors a 6 to 4 victory; others will remember last fall's 13 to 12 triumph for the Crimson at Nassau, as Harlow's team withstood a frantic Tiger assault and Carl Libert's passes in the final minutes of play...
...Ford Theater (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Eric Ambler's creepy man hunt through the Balkans, A Coffin for Dimitrios...
...most significant event in ecclesiastical history since the Reformation." So said Presbyterian Patriarch Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin...
...after his death, silent, shuffling throngs lined the sidewalks outside the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, walked in, passed slowly by his open, candle-flanked coffin. When the cathedral doors were finally closed at 11 o'clock at night, 45,000 people of every race, creed and walk of life had paid a final salute. The next day, 10,000 people jammed the cathedral to attend his funeral. Thousands more stood hatless under overcast skies as his funeral cortege moved with slow music to Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx...