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Last week, after picking out the site for his tomb and announcing that he would probably die soon, Cinemogul Harry Cohn, 66, president of Columbia Pictures Corp., suffered a coronary thrombosis in Phoenix, Ariz., died in a wailing ambulance on the way to the hospital. A career that paralleled the great, glittering days of the cinema had outlasted the great days themselves...
Britain's womb-to-tomb National Health Service is in the red again. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heath-coat-Amory gave Commons the bad news: individual contributions will be upped, on July i, as much...
Horrified, he notified his bishop; equally horrified, the bishop consulted canon law and found a clause stipulating that "epitaphs...and tomb decorations must not contain any material offending the Catholic Church or piety." Forthwith, he ordered the godless symbols removed from the tombstone...
...news spread through the region, priests and mayors locked horns. "Politics cannot go beyond the tomb!" wrote a Red-strafing priest, Reggio Emilia's Don Wilson Pignanoli, in his paper. La Liberta. "Inquisition!" cried the party-lining Socialist paper, Avanti!. "It seems to us that a dying man should be able to choose for his tombstone the symbols he believed in while he lived, whether they are religious or political. What about the Star of David over tombs of Jews? And lamps which illuminate the headstones of free thinkers...
...rocking after the U.S. film called Rock Around the Clock (starring Singer Bill Haley) caught the fancy of Parisian teenagers two years ago. Mac sang his way to fame with his gutty-voiced, absinthe-flavored readings of such items as See You Later, Alligator (T'es pas tombé sur la tête), and You Left in Your Bobby Socks (T'es partie en socquettes). Now Atlantic has recorded the best of Mac on an album entitled Mac-Kac and His French Rock & Roll. The familiar beat is there, but the lyrics provide a startling illustration...