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Macmillan's mission in town, only two months after his resignation as Britain's Prime Minister, was to attend the House of Commons post-mortem debate on the Profumo-Keeler scandal...
...each for the pleasure of seeing him hang heard him cry, Glory, glory, glory," as the door was sprung from beneath his feet. Czolgosz was electrocuted only 46 days after McKinley died, and a carboy of sulphuric acid was poured into his coffin afterward, by way of post-mortem punishment. Sergeant Boston Corbett, the soldier who claimed he had killed Booth, in defiance of orders that he be taken alive, explained that he had acted on God's authority. "Providence directed me," he said...
...crib deaths, more than twice the usual number, among babies under six months, mostly boys. One explanation offered was that the babies died of dehydration, and this seemed plausible for a time because there were only one or two crib deaths right after the heat broke. But post-mortem examination of the victims showed no dehydration. And other cities that had suffered the same heat, or worse, reported no increase in crib deaths, which only served to deepen the Philadelphia mystery...
...such astonishing specialists as the Practical Burial Footwear Company of Columbus, Ohio, which offer Fit-a-Fut oxfords (in patent, calf, tan or oxblood) and Ko-Zee, with its "soft, cushioned soles and warm, luxurious slipper comfort, but true shoe smartness." Courtesy Products has a "new Bra-form, Post Mortem Form Restoration . . . they accomplish so much for so little ($11 for a package of 50)," and at a recent convention of the National Funeral Directors' Association, Florence Gowns Inc. of Cleveland showed a line of "hostess gowns and brunch coats" for loved ones...
Physicians were forced to the conclusion that it was the hidden, glassy membrane that had killed the President's son, despite the most resourceful treatment in U.S. medicine's most advanced hyperbaric chamber. Such a membrane is found in at least half of all preemies at post-mortem exams-which means it kills more than 25,000 premature babies each year...