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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S way of handling news should always produce a sense-making report. Occasionally, it achieves something more-a story that readers remember and quote and write about to TIME. After 15 years, many old TIME readers remember its story on the death and funeral of Calvin Coolidge. Written by John Shaw Billings (then National Affairs editor, now editorial director), the story told simply and very clearly how the news of his death came to the Senate, the House, President Hoover, and to Mrs. Aurora Pierce, "longtime Coolidge housekeeper" at Plymouth, Vt. She "heard a tap on the homestead...
TIME gave the circumstances of his death: "Mr. Coolidge sat talking with Secretary Ross-about the Plymouth place, last year's pa'tridge shooting, hay fever. ... He evened up the pens on the desk. He went 'down cellar,' watched the furnace man shovel coal. About noon he disappeared upstairs, presumably to shave, as so many New Englanders do about midday...
...nature inevitably evil, partaking of the original sin of Adam; that salvation is by faith alone, that good works are meritorious but not essential; that grace is God's gratuitous benevolence; that the Atonement is the redeeming power of Christ's incarnation, suffering and death; that the end of history will be the Last Judgment...
...them. They argue that chickens are insensitive animals anyway, and that game roosters fare better than most common chickens, which end up in a fricassee without having a chance to defend themselves. Game cocks cannot be kept at large with another rooster, for a cock will fight to the death with any other male fowl he meets. Because no two cocks can be turned loose on the same walk (yard) without fighting, chicken men parcel their roosters out on as many as 40 neighboring farms, where they boss a small harem of hens until three weeks before a fight...
...Beth Israel Hospital almost five years ago, her husband put on a black necktie and made a vow. He vowed that he would not discard his badge of mourning until he had won a victory in court over the doctors he blamed for his wife's death...