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...listed among the dead or missing. But Cohen was not dead. Last week, having heard the Germans had left, Cohen came out of his tomb. He was pale, shrunken, with a big, matted beard. He told how every day the sexton had brought him food and the newspapers. One coffin, encrusted with candle drippings, had been his table, another...
...Princeton University Chapel on Thanksgiving Day, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary and foremost U.S. Presbyterian, preached proud Americans a sermon on Christian humbleness. Excerpts...
...spokesman Robert Bobbitt. On the Texas campus, 6,000 irate students promptly cut classes, shouldered banners proclaiming NO CLASSES TILL RAINEY; RATS AND REGENTS LEAVE A SINKING SHIP. Dark-clad and solemn, they marched in a parade twelve blocks long to plant in the Capitol rotunda a crepe-draped coffin labeled "Academic Freedom...
Eight Rush County farmers, seven of them tenants on Willkie land and one a former tenant, carried Wendell Willkie's flag-draped coffin to the hearse. As the funeral procession moved over the road to East Hill Cemetery, hundreds stood bareheaded. The hearse rolled through a grey stone arch, up a hill to the grave...
Here, even more than in the town, there was the feel of autumn quiet. People walking up the slope to the grave stirred fallen leaves. Mrs. Willkie stood quietly beside her son, and her husband's brothers, Fred and big Ed Willkie. When the coffin was lowered she took one quick step toward the grave. Then, slowly, with the family group, she walked away down the knoll. The crowd left. Wendell Willkie, who had discovered that the world was one, was back home in Indiana...