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Memorial Hall is where all Harvard undergraduates enroll and where most of them return in time to take examinations. On these occasions alone does the College regularly use the nave of this imposing testimony to the Crimson soldiers of the Civil...
...Glendale and Forest Lawn patrolmen kept the public well out of sight as 200 of Miss Harlow's friends, relatives and colleagues gathered at the Wee Kirk, whose nave had been converted into a scented bower by $15,000 worth of flowers. Clark Gable,* Miss Harlow's Business Manager Edward J. Mannix, MGM Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Jack Conway, Cameraman Ray June, Director William S. Van Dyke were pallbearers. Jeanette MacDonald sang Indian Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read...
...Wall Street clerks and runners, several loafers, a handful of worshipers and some Roman Catholic nuns dropped in at odd times last week on Manhattan's old Trinity Church to inspect a large cabinet in the nave. They beheld, behind glass, an illuminated statuet of Jesus Christ, praying in a Garden of Gethsemane in which every leaf and blade of grass was meticulously modeled and painted. Every four and one-half minutes the lights slowly dimmed and the haloed plaster head of Jesus raised slowly heavenward. This was "the first animated diorama ever made of a religious subject," lent...
Ending the Solemn Requiem Mass, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, faced the nave, cried: "We herewith take a solemn oath to love our motherland as only you, Marshal Pilsudski, loved...
...over and all Brazil went to work to apotheosize Alberto Santos-Dumont, the air hero, in good South American style. In Rio de Janeiro's ancient metropolitan Cathedral, hung with black velvet and flickering with candlelight, the body lay in a huge sarcophagus. In the murk of the nave, 2,000 Brazilians per hour filed slowly past day & night. The day of the funeral was a national holiday. Laurel leaves were strewn solidly on the Avenida Rio Branca for 720 ft., the distance of the hero's first flight. Artillery sounded the body into the grave, a five...