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...morning last week in the East Room of the White House a small mountain of flowers was banked between the huge portraits of George and Martha Washington. Before the flowers the ornate South American coffin of Gus Gennerich lay in state. Over it a Lutheran minister read the second funeral service for the Presidential bodyguard who dropped dead in Buenos Aires. Among the 300 listeners seated on gilt chairs were George and Augustus Gutrie, bereaved brother-in-law and nephew, Cabinet members and their ladies, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, Mrs. Roosevelt, the President himself, sunburned, leaner, refreshed from 28 days...
Into a Pittsburgh church one day last week marched Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno and 77 automobilists convicted of drunken driving. In a coffin below the pulpit lay the corpse of one Wasco Bombar, killed by a drunken driver. Ranging the 77 culprits in front pews where they could see the coffin and a big wreath they had jointly bought for it, Judge Musmanno entered the pulpit to deliver a funeral sermon. Excerpt...
...cabin he held a Uruguayan press conference for newshawks, Latin & U. S., each of whom had spent the day under the surveillance of an individually assigned detective. Before the President's departure, the able Montevideo police chief sent a delegation aboard to pay tribute at the coffin of dead U. S. Secret Servant Gus Gennerich. Then, still smiling, Franklin Roosevelt sailed for home, having had, as Santiago, Chile's El Mercurio declared, "The greatest apotheosis of his career...
...favorite pastime among pirates of the Spanish Main was to set men adrift in small boats or maroon them on desert islands. Caja de Muertos (Coffin) Island, a few miles off the southern shore of Puerto Rico, is supposed to be the original of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, on which, as every schoolboy knows, pirates marooned Ben Gunn. Last week, out of the ocean near Coffin Island came reports of an amazing revival of such piratical practice...
...West Mahwah but were discovered at midnight, two hours after sailing. Furious, Captain Hansen at once ordered a few pieces of painters' staging spliced together, gave the boys two bottles of water and a loaf of bread, set them adrift. At dawn the four castaways sighted Coffin Island 15 miles away, tried to reach it by paddling with their hands. They were still far away that afternoon when the fishing smack Desafio picked them up, carried them to Ponce...