Word: mausoleum
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Died. Edward Herbert Thompson, 74, pioneer explorer of Mayan sites in Yucatan; of heart disease; in Plainfield, N. J. U. S. consul from 1885 to 1909, he found Yucatan's long-sought "Hidden City," a high priest's mausoleum, a temple, the "Maya Venus." His most famed exploit: exploring a holy well (limestone sinkhole) into which Mayans had hurled sacrifices. Diving in 80 ft. of water and mud, he brought up skeletons of girls, ornaments of jade, gold, copper, ebony...
...aristocratic relatives followed the sealed black coffin across Berlin's swank Kaiserwilhelm Cemetery. The grave had been dug next to the mausoleum of the family of a distant relative, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the ace of aces of Imperial Germany. Though there is generally no parson at such funerals, a Protestant pastor was permitted to officiate. Meanwhile all Berlin gaped at scarlet and black posters stuck up everywhere in which Adolf Hitler pointedly emphasized the obvious fact that he had refused to save from beheading Baroness von Falkenhayn and the other beauteous spy who was beheaded with her, aristocratic...
...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...