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Money Is Better. As the "scarlet epidemic" spread, it became more distinguished to reject than to accept the award. Degas, De Maupassant, Clemenceau, Gide, Sartre and Camus all allegedly turned the Legion down. Offered the medal in lieu of payment for his famed requiem commissioned by the government, Composer Hector Berlioz snorted: "To hell with your Legion of Honor. I want my money." But a refusal cannot be worn in a buttonhole, and thousands of other Frenchmen still openly court the award...
...some, it was the ageless rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. But to others, it was the fact that those rituals are not changeless-as evidenced when Richard Cardinal Gushing, Archbishop of Boston, who had married John and Jacqueline Kennedy and baptized their children, neared the end of the Requiem Mass and cried in his strangely discordant voice: "May the angels, dear Jack, lead you into Paradise." And to a few, it was the time when Air Force One, the blue-and-white presidential jet, thundered over the graveside ceremony in Arlington Cemetery. Said the pilot later: "The President liked...
...Last Trip Home. This week Cardinal Gushing would celebrate the Requiem Mass in Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral. France's De Gaulle would be there, along with Britain's Prince Philip and Prime Minister Douglas-Home, Greece's Queen Frederika, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, Belgium's King Baudouin, Russia's Deputy Premier Mikoyan, Ireland's President De Valera, Canada's Prime Minister Pearson, Germany's Chancellor Erhard, the Philippines' President Macapagal, and many more...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Society, St. Paul's Church, and the Harvard Business School. The Hillel service will begin at 1 p.m. at 5 Bryant Street; the Busineas School memoriam, will take place in Baker 100 at 10 a.m. At B. Paul's Church, Bow and Arrow Streets, a soleman requiem mass for the late President will be sung...
...with rehearsals and conducting classes, the afternoons with conferences and more rehearsals, the evenings with performances. He played through a Mozart series, a Prokofiev cycle, and led his orchestra through a total of 32 works ne-W to Tanglewood, including the American premiere of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem...