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...voice of the organ echoes down the mighty Gothic nave as the congregation rises to sing the Doxology...
...edge of the minister's solemn dark surplice as he sweeps up into the pulpit and the choir and organ thunder the last amen can be seen the orange and black seal of the university, and below it Princeton's motto...
...deep church bell tolls. The casket passes into the decorous stillness of the vaulted interior, leaving the hundred or so second liners and the musicians outside. The organ plays hymns that would be favorites in any Baptist church: In the Garden, Just as I Am. A priest reads from Job and speaks of the "gift of music" that Albert Walters had. Funerals like Walters', as William J. Schafer fairly puts it in Brass Bands and New Orleans Jazz, are "public acts, theatrical displays designed not to hide burial as a fearful obscenity but to exhibit it as a community...
Inside, Mr. Ed Hoffman, "the singing usher" from the Angel's Anaheim Stadium and the father of Red Sox shortstop Glenn Hoffman, sings the national anthem accompanied by the muzak of the park organ. Afterwards, Mrs. Eleanor "Stoney" Stone, who the scoreboard calls "a long time Red Sox fan," a mother of nine and a grand-mother of ten, throws out the first ball to Red Sox cathcher Gary Allenson. Someone in the stands yells, "Put her in the bullpen...
Heart transplants are sometimes the only hope for people dying of heart disease. But such operations are expensive, donors are scarce, and the recipient's body often rejects the new organ. Fewer than 50 transplants are done in the U.S. each year, and only 50% of patients survive five years. A more dazzling option seemed imminent when researchers from the University of Utah announced last month that they were ready to implant artificial hearts in humans. Only one hurdle remained: permission from the Food and Drug Administration. But last week the FDA rejected their application-for the time being...