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...monuments, and dig graves with huge mechanical diggers that can scoop out a regulation 5-by-3-by-8-ft. hole in eight minutes. One man has the sole duty of patrolling the cemetery endlessly to remove withered wreaths and fading flowers from the markers. From neighboring Fort Myer, 60-odd husky, white-gloved soldiers act as pallbearers, buglers, riflemen (to fire a farewell volley into the air at every military burial) and 24-hour-a-day sentries at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Arlington's population is growing at the rate of 75 funerals a week...
Secret Weapon. In San Pablo, Calif., Cab Driver William Myer and Filling Station Attendant William E. Van Meter reported that a gunman had robbed them of $20, handed them a fifth of whisky, gave them six minutes to drink it, thereby rendered them unable to tell their story to police for several hours...
Everyone with whom he came in contact here, including his friends, agrees that Schine's main trouble was his money. He had plenty of it as the son of J. Myer Schine, multi-millionaire owner of the Schine Hotel chain which includes such luxury hostelries as the Roney Plaza in Miami and the Ambassador in Los Angeles. The family also owns several radio stations and 150 movie theatres...
Gerard David Schine, 27, private, U.S. Army Military Police, was transferred last week from Camp Gordon, Ga. to Fort Myer, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, to be available for the great investigation, whose central question is: Did McCarthy threaten to blackmail the Army on Schine's behalf or did the Army threaten to use Schine as its blackmail weapon against McCarthy? When newsmen spotted Schine in the Senate Office Building last week, he ignored their questions, bounded up a staircase, three steps at a stride...
Ingredient for Palship. Cohn's important Manhattan legal friends had been telling him for a long time that he should meet young David Schine, the son of J. Myer Schine, multimillionaire owner of a string of hotels and theaters. Cohn's old boss, Irving Saypol, got Dave and Roy together at a luncheon in a restaurant in downtown Manhattan in 1952. Dave Schine turned out to be a pleasant, articulate young man with the build and features of a junior-grade Greek god. The two 25-year-olds were soon cutting a wide swath through Manhattan...