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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To his regular sales force Eaton added a staff of "silent salesmen," as he called the works of art he assembled at Forest Lawn. The first of these was Edith Barrett Parson's Duck Baby, later followed by a vast sculpture group called The Mystery of Life, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Nestled among the warm brown hills of the San Fernando Valley, hardly a bone's throw from some of the wealthiest Los Angeles suburbs, lies a brilliant green oasis of more than 300 acres, which at first glance seems to be a golf course. On closer examination, the oasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Forest Lawn is a cemetery in which nobody calls a spade a spade. Here the loss of life is known as "leavetaking," a corpse is "the loved one" or "the revered clay," the dead are merely "out of sight." Here 1,500,000 visitors a year wander, secure in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Lovers in the Sunset. The prophet came to earth on June 3, 1881, in Liberty, Mo., the son of an ordained minister and professor of natural sciences at a small Baptist college, who died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land when Hubert was 16. The boy managed to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Missing Symbol. Last year some 8,000 loved ones, about 22 a day, were buried in Forest Lawn. Some were interred. Some were entombed. Some were inurned. (Soon, if plans for flying funerals work out, some may be enhelicoptered.) All en joyed the services of the finest available morticians and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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