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...Omaha mortician who put away the remains of Franklyn R. Rees after dark had excellent authority for his ceremony (TIME, April 27). Matthew records (XXVIII-57) that the "even was come" when Joseph of Arimathaea begged the body of Jesus from Pilate, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb. John records (XIX-39) that Nicodemus came to the body of Jesus ''by night" with myrrh and aloes and only thereafter was it buried in the sepulchre...
...London General Pershing met George V,? was ceremoniously received by high officials. Moving on to Paris (June 13), he began a round of official receptions, dinners, calls, parties and conferences that seriously distracted him from his job. The plate, the linen, the menu and the service at the £lysee Palace moved him to exclaim: "Nowhere are such things done so well as at the palace of the President...
...slant-chinned young woman with a keen eye, a quick brain, confined her satire at the Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...
...consul at Nice, Robertson Honey, escorted the Swedish nurse when she brought fresh linen to make up Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger's bed in jail. In Paris the lawyer who handled Mr. Nixon-Nirdlinger's last divorce coined an impromptu epitaph: "He always found married life extremely difficult. But he found it impossible to live alone...
Serious Matters? Eve Garrette Grady wrote that she learned not to laugh when clothes-hungry Russians asked her on the street for how much she would sell, then and there, her panama hat, her white linen frock, even her silk stockings...