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...Venerated as a Defender of the Faith, King Charles has often been regarded as a Church of England saint. Some years ago the Holy Cross monks (Episcopal) in St. Andrews, Tenn., held a service in which a hair from King Charles's beard was exhibited on a pillow. The Chronicle called it a "hirsute comedy...
...first production since leaving Warner Brothers last spring, Darryl Zanuck did what any smart producer might have tried but what very few could have carried off. From the sad look that comes into Wallace Beery's piggish eyes when he examines Jackie Cooper, to the sofa-pillow figure popularized by Mae West. Zanuck put in practically everything that cinema audiences have particularly patronized for the last two years. As a framework, he had Howard Estabrook and James Gleason fabricate a picaresque story about rival saloonkeepers on Manhattan's famed Bowery, just before the war with Spain...
...newspapers "sold" some 5,000,000 volumes of Dickens, in a mad scramble for new readers. Dickens was only a starter. Washing machines came next. Then sets" of china, electric irons, cricket bats & balls, cameras. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, sets of "modern classics." Fountain pens, fancy pencils, stockings, underwear, wrist watches, pillow cases, pyjamas. Lord Beaverbrook outfitted his canvassers with samples of boots, coats, pants and shoes, sent them west to show Welsh miners how they might clothe a whole family by reading the Express for eight weeks...
Until at least 1926 the ruling house of Saxony followed something of the same procedure. As soon as death was certain, the heart and entrails were removed. The heart, in a casket, was placed on a white satin pillow at one side of the coffin; the entrails in a white satin-covered jar, at the other side. When the coffin went to its vault the heart-casket and entrails-jar went onto a bracket alongside...
...Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain pen, he signed a $25,000 bail bond. "Is that all?" he demanded peremptorily. "Then good evening, gentlemen," and sank back weakly on his pillow...