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A copy of an unpublished poem by Rudyard Kipling which was rejected by an English magazine at the height of his career, and the author's original manuscript of the famous poem "Recessional," rescued from his wastebasket, are included in a memorial exhibition of Kipling's works now on display...
Day before all London watched King Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster Hall last week, a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved...
Mahatma Gandhi's secretary: "It is impossible for Mr. Gandhi to comment on the death of Mr. Kipling because two more of Mr. Gandhi's front teeth have just had to be extracted."
De Mortuis. In saying nothing except good of dead Rudyard Kipling last week some slight difficulty was experienced by Poet Laureate John Maseneld. Said honest Mr. Maseneld: "To myself, who did not know Kipling's recent poetry, he is a Victorian poet, whose best poems are not yet as...
Died. Rudyard Kipling, 70, novelist, poet and storyteller; after a stomach operation; in London (see p. 23).