Word: mausoleum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pasadena, Calif., undertakers removed the frozen body of William Wrigley Jr., found it unchanged in appearance since they put it there three years ago. An ambulance sped it to the S. S. Catalina which bore it out to Santa Catalina Island. Near the town of Avalon an obelisk-topped mausoleum has been two years building. There William Wrigley Jr. was finally buried...
...three months before his assassination King Alexander completed on the hill of Oplenatz, 50 miles from Belgrade, a vast neo-Byzantine family tomb. Therein he installed his swineherd ancestor ''Black George," the peasant who became a bandit, then a general, and finally the "Liberator of Serbia." The mausoleum is in the form of a multidomed church with a crypt beneath for the royal Kara-Georgevitches, the descendants of Black George. Last week green lights burned in the crypt. When King Alexander's body, brought by train and motor hearse from Belgrade, was finally lowered to rest beside...
...convention, but there are more than ten times that number of gravestone companies in the U. S. They range from the little fellow on the corner lot who buys his stock readymade, to such potent concerns as Charles G. Blake Co. of Chicago who built the $100,000 Gary mausoleum, and Presbrey-Leland Studios Inc. of Manhattan who erected the $300,000 William Rockefeller mausoleum at Tarrytown, N. Y. Most big firms do their work on contract, employ their own designers. Architect Raymond Mathewson Hood who died last week (see p. 28) once worked for Presbrey-Leland. The bigger firms...
...wild youth and the ugly rumors that attended his rise to fortune. He is happy with his young wife, his adored only daughter, takes silent pride in his potent citizenship. Chief interest of his declining years is the building of a cathedral which is to be a mausoleum for himself. On the side he buttresses his already sturdy fortune by canny trading among the hotheads of a real-estate boom. When a lynching scare (in outline the Scottsboro case) threatens to undermine the town's prosperity, the Colonel risks his popularity to preserve law & order. When the boom collapses...
...midst of the 15-acre Vanderbilt plot adjoining the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp, Staten Island, there arose almost 70 years ago a great mausoleum (see cut) in which lie 54 coffins including those of the old Commodore; his son William Henry; his grandsons Cornelius, George Washington, William Kissam; his great-grandson Reginald and his great-great-grandson William K. Jr. Last week Mrs. Vanderbilt was put away with those who, in the words read by Dr. Brooks from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, "are henceforth blessed . . . for they rest from their labors...