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...Oplenatz, 50 miles from Belgrade, a vast neo-Byzantine family tomb. Therein he installed his swineherd ancestor ''Black George," the peasant who became a bandit, then a general, and finally the "Liberator of Serbia." The mausoleum is in the form of a multidomed church with a crypt beneath for the royal Kara-Georgevitches, the descendants of Black George. Last week green lights burned in the crypt. When King Alexander's body, brought by train and motor hearse from Belgrade, was finally lowered to rest beside Black George, Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia broke down completely and King...
...sanatorium lights shone brightly in the summer dusk. Marie Curie lapsed into coma. Next morning at daybreak she died. Her body was taken to Paris. In a crypt 20 miles from Paris, her remains were placed beside those of her husband. Only witnesses were her daughters, son-in-law, a handful of intimate associates. One by one, in silence, they filed past the casket and each laid on it a rose. The world Press rang with acclaim for the greatest woman scientist in history...
...pale old General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Also there was Francis Bowes Sayre, the other Wilsonian son-in-law whom President Roosevelt had made Assistant Secretary of State. His two children, Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and Eleanor Axson Sayre, laid a wreath on the Wilson tomb in the crypt of the Washington Cathedral...
...convinced that the office of the President is not such a very difficult one to fill, his duties being mainly to execute the laws of Congress." That was the end. Admiral Dewey died in 1917, was buried in Arlington. In 1925 his body was moved to the crypt of Washington Cathedral. Most tourists turn first to the other side of the vault, where lies Woodrow Wilson who as President did much more than "execute the laws of Congress." Two years ago Dewey's widow died. Last week old friends went to see the residue of the Dewey glory sold...
...ring, stickpin, or fingerprints," they warned. "You can take such things from a dead man. We must have something in father's handwriting." After five days old Mr. Luer was turned loose on a road near Collinsville. He had been kept, he said, in a dank, narrow concrete crypt in the basement of a house he could not locate. Reported ransom: $10,000. Elsewhere the week's snatching wave lapped and lashed. At San Diego, Calif., onetime President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico received two telephone calls demanding $50,000 on pain of being kidnapped. A 42-year...