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...only flaw in the Bennett legend is that he did not get the mausoleum he wanted. This was to be a statue, 200 feet high, in the shape of an owl (Bennett liked owls). It was to be far grander than Grant's tomb on Riverside Drive (Bennett did not like Grant). But Architect Stanford White, who was supposed to design the bird, got himself shot by Harry Thaw. Bennett lost interest, and Manhattan lost...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Brinkley inspects the guard of honor at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Color...
Papadimitriou dug up some marble fragments, and these led him to the site of Iphigenia's ceremonial tomb. As the years passed, the diggers came upon the temple, a dormitory for young virgins, a Doric-columned stoa even the secret staircase to which Euripides referred, as well as hundreds of mirrors, goblets, rings, vases, and small statues...
...names in this novel seem to have come from unpretentious rural tomb stones, the thin sandstone kind that a man could carry under one arm : Lizzie Yoh, Theodosia Garrison, Phrany Luck-enbill, Lutie Markle, Jake Loy. Palmyra Scarlett, Seranus Mast. They live in towns like Jacob's and Unionville in Pennsylvania's Vale of Union, or up in the mining patches at Mahanoy near the Tulpehocken Trail. The prose is as homely as a bag of snitz. Some people get their dutch up, others are as meek as Moses. They eat victuals, marry helpmeets, and get around...
...position of a Red nation in Communism's ideological conflict can be judged by the location of corpses and symbols. After the 22nd Communist Party Congress voted last October to remove Joseph Stalin from the Red Square tomb he shared with Lenin, Czechoslovakia's Communist Party announced a similar assault on the cult of personality. Stalin ist Klement Gottwald, who led the party to power in 1948 (and died in 1953 of pneumonia and pleurisy contracted at Stalin's funeral) was to be moved from his mausoleum. But visiting Prague last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Ball discovered...