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...spirit, and I'm so happy I don't want to go to bed nights." One night last week, after a five-week illness, the Rev. James Jefferson Davis Hall, 86, went to sleep for the last time. He had told friends the epitaph he wanted on his headstone: "I preached not what they wanted but what they needed, and I found it easy to be a Christian." His text will be followed exactly. Meanwhile, the phone at Circle 6-6483 is still ringing, and Dad Hall's assistants are there to answer...
Before going home, Davies wrote an epitaph for the Paris meeting: "The Russians tried to weaken the defense effort of the West by pressure on public opinion. They found the West indivisible . . . That much they have learned from the conference...
...wounded in his own battalion by artillery, another 50 wounded and taken back north. He had not learned that in his area, one company of 120 was down to 40, another company had 30 wounded in strafing by U.N. planes. He did not see mound after mound with the epitaph: "Here lies a warrior of liberation...
...nothing but write verse." It was not the lyric verse that once sang: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree"; now it had a marblelike quality, a classic vigor and clarity that most younger poets envied. A few months earlier, at 73, he had written his epitaph...
...rottenness of the "République des Petits Copains" (the Republic of Pals) or government by a Chamber that had itself become a vested political interest far divorced from the people who elected it. In his book, Yesterday-Tomorrow, written during the war, he wrote his own epitaph for the Third Republic. "The old teams," he wrote, "moving slower & slower, went in & out 'making the little tour,' always with a little more skepticism, always with a little more discredit." Of ministerial crises he noted: "At the first hot episode the cement would melt and everything would have...