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...before, the body of Henry Ford had lain in state in the lobby of the recreation building at Greenfield Village, while 105,000 people had filed past. Now, inside St. Paul's, the Very Reverend Kirk B. O'Ferrall read the service. The crowd filed out and a Packard hearse carried the body of Henry Ford out along Joy Road to the small family cemetery beside a four-lane highway. Henry Ford had never ridden comfortably in any car but one of his own make; he wouldn't have liked it. They lowered the coffin into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Detroit Dynast | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...mountain children (the story went), he sent her $1 with which she bought peanut seed, making a profit on the crop. Afterwards he built a Gothic quadrangle for her school, spending millions. He loved and collected the relics of the old, slow age which he had destroyed. In his Greenfield Village near Dearborn, he lovingly set up Abraham Lincoln's courthouse and the Menlo Park workshop of his hero, Thomas Edison. He filled his museum with stage coaches, buggies, prairie schooners, old furniture, old tools, old junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Detroit Dynast | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Next meet on the skiers' roster is the Massachusetts State Jumping Championships, scheduled for Saturday at Greenfield. Four members of the team and Coach William Halsey 3G will participate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Shedd Is Unanimously Elected Captain of Ski Team | 2/18/1947 | See Source »

...Until Billy and Josephine, now married to Walter Buhl Ford II (no blood relation), reach the age of 25, Mrs. Edsel Ford is trustee for their shares. The 1,350,000 shares of non-voting stock were turned over to the Ford Foundation, a tax-free charity (Ford Hospital, Greenfield Village, etc.), which the family organized ten years ago. Thus the inheritance tax was comparatively light, although the exact sum is still in dispute between the Ford family and the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Young Henry Takes a Risk | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Last Chance. But last week Joe Kennedy seemed to have his old zest again. In a midnight blue Chrysler, he rode like a Paul Revere through the textile, shoe and machinery-producing towns in Middlesex, Essex, and Berkshire counties. All the way from Greenfield to Salem, in some 30 speeches within ten days, he spread the alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Kennedy Hits the Trail | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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