Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forest Lawn Cemetery, where Paramhansa's body was embalmed, officials reported an unusual phenomenon. Wrote Mortuary Director Harry T. Rowe: "No physical disintegration was visible . . . even 20 days after death . . . Paramhansa Yo-gananda's body was apparently devoid of impurities . . . [His] case is unique in our experience...
...When the American people began to make sightseeing detours through the driveway of the Barkley farm, Mrs. Barkley was all for putting up a sign: "Private Property, No Trespassing." But Mr. Democrat put his foot down. Today, despite the fact that a family of strangers recently littered his front lawn with a picnic lunch, the Veep's only sign is the name on the mailbox: "A. W. Barkley...
...little Lowes school, his father loaded the family and their possessions into a single wagon and, with the cow trailing behind, moved to Clinton, Ky. so Alben could go to Marvin College. Alben worked his way through Marvin as janitor (years later a wag posted a sign on the lawn: "Barkley Swept Here"), won high grades and a medal for oratory...
Military men in the uniforms of half a dozen different nations mingled with proud mothers and officials of France's Ministry of Education one day last week on the lawn of the old chateau of St. Germain-en-Laye, twelve miles northwest of Paris. A French military band finished the slow beat of Swanee River and swung into the lilting rhythm of Marching Through Georgia. It was the first "Commencement Day" for the international school set up this year for the children of SHAPE Village...
...Carolina boy who fell on a live grenade in Korea, thus saving the lives of men around him-Ronald Rosser received the Congressional Medal of Honor. His father, his mother, his wife (he was married six days before going overseas), and 19 other relatives stood on the White House lawn to watch President Truman hang the medal around his neck-the Misco mine and its employees chipped in to hire a bus for the family's trip to Washington. But, though bursting with pride, Crooksville was still a little incredulous...