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...neat package. Then he locked and shuttered his shop, and with his bundle of money under his arm, took a stroll to Belgrade's biggest cemetery. There he held a long conversation with a sexton. The money changed hands. The sexton led the way to a family-sized crypt, which Cohen entered. The crypt's massive door slammed, was locked from the outside. Shortly after, the Germans blitzed Belgrade, then took over what was left of the city...
Reburied. Will Rogers, cowboy humorist-philosopher who was killed in 1935 in an Alaska plane crash; in a white stone crypt on a hillside near his home town, Claremore, Okla...
...ornate Paz family crypt in Buenos Aires' comfortable La Recoleta cemetery, honors came thick last week to the late José Clemente Paz, founder of Argentina's La Prensa. The Argentine Government issued a special commemorative postage stamp. Nationwide collections were taken to erect a monument. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a laudatory cable, as did many another foreign notable. It was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Argentina's most famous journalist...
Parents of the late mush-mouthed Comic Jo−who were bequeathed a third of his $100,000 estate-settled out of court a suit they had brought against his widow, charging that she was extravagant in buying a $9,579 marble crypt...
...Martin-in-the-Fields was one of London's first blitzed churches. A bomb penetrated the crypt, but the bells are sound. The Church of St. Sepulchre stands opposite Old Bailey, which was hit three times, but the church, whose tenor bell once tolled for executions, has so far escaped. The Shoreditch bells are untouched. Incendiaries burned holes in the roof of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, legendary church of all those born at sea. The windows were blasted, but the church and its bells are intact. Bow Church was damaged; its bells remain...