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...Clear a Name. Back in Melrose Highlands, Mass., comely, 34-year-old Ruth Alice Crawshaw, a former Navy nurse, was both grief-stricken and indignant when she got the report. To everyone who would listen, she told what a devoted husband and father Crawshaw had been. She pointed out that her husband suffered from stomach ulcers and had frequent attacks of violent nausea. Her theory was that he had fallen overboard while standing at the ship's railing during one of these seizures. Because the Navy had ruled that Crawshaw died from his own misconduct, his widow...
Police authorities released the grief-stricken girl to her mother. They said no charges would be pressed. The mother, Mrs. Ralph A. Alexander, disclosed last night that her daughter was removed from the hospital during the afternoon and was "resting quietly at home...
...Vineland, it was one of three pioneer institutions for the mentally deficient,* had been going just twelve years. The rest of the U.S. knew precious little about retarded children (i.e., those with an intelligence fixed below the twelve-year level) or what could be done for them. Horrified and grief-stricken parents hid the unhappy children in back rooms or sent them to be cared for in inadequately equipped asylums...
Father Franz Joseph was more furious than grief-stricken when he heard the news. Years before, a tailor had tried to kill him, and ever since he had used the word "tailor" to describe anything that he considered utterly contemptible. So now he shrieked: "My son died like a tailor!" -and proceeded to suppress the story. Mary Vetsera was buried secretly. As for Rudolph: "His Imperial and Royal Highness [has] died suddenly of heart failure," said the Court communiqu...
...from $250 to $299, and purchases over $700, were only 2% of the total. . . Of all these services, 78.6% were under $399.00. . . .Every funeral director will agree that our main problem is not trying to sell $2,500 services (if there is such a thing) but rather to convince grief-stricken families to buy within their means and not allow sorrow or sentiment to influence them in a choice they may later regret...