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...reward for his services, Allenby was buried in Westminster Abbey. Yet nowadays, says Author Gardner, the staff of the abbey often cannot recall the site of his grave, which is "customarily half hidden under a row of chairs...
...customer; one of his defense attorneys was Carl Sanders, now the Governor of Georgia. The Miami News's Haines Colbert reported that on the anniversary of her husband's death, Candy sent newspapers some pictures of herself and her four adopted children mourning at Mossler's grave...
...senior minister of Washington's National City Christian Church, the Rev. George R. Davis of course favors equal rights for Negroes-but he has grave doubts about most of the methods Negroes use to get them. In the capital, where politics is everyone's chief obsession, Davis' foot-dragging has turned into news because he is the minister who currently lays claim to the unofficial title of "the President's pastor."* Lyndon Johnson, though he sometimes attends services at Episcopal, Lutheran and Methodist churches, goes most often to National City, the "national church" of his denomination...
...Recalls Indira: "The most important meetings were on our lawn." Reprisals by India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both of her parents or grandfather being marched off to jail. A visitor to the Nehru home in those days remembers being informed by a grave-faced Indira that "I'm sorry, but Papa, Mama and Grandpa are all in prison...
Greeks burned their dead heroes on great funeral pyres; Vikings launched their mourned leaders seaward in great ships. What funeral rites should assist a leather-jacketed motorcycle chieftain of California's hell-raising Hell's Angels to his grave? The problem arose last week after James T. Miles, 30, died in a head-on collision between his motor cycle and a truck in Oakland, Calif...