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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By the 1930s, Eaton's vision had caught the California eye. On weekends, happy Californians packed the place like an amusement park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole...

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 »

At 78, Biographer St. Johns reports, Builder Eaton still has one foot in the graveyard. He takes a paternal interest in some 900 well-paid employees and issues periodic denunciations of other cemeteries, which, as a Forest Lawn Art Guide once put it, "cry out men's utter hopelessness...

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

Birth control and the government's dollar loss were among the other topics Galbraith considered. Although population control is already vital to the economic development of many countries and may some day be necessary in the United States, he said , the government should keep the issue entirely out of foreign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Galbraith Charges U.S. Wasted Foreign Aid With Military Grants | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Just as everything is going along fine, the war interrupts the proceedings and the men go to the front. Tearful scenes ensue--although it must be admitted that these are fairly convincingly played. Some of the men return, some don't, and the film ends where it began, with the...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: The House I Live In | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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