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...author was the dissolute young genius Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe, so this one goes, was not killed in that famous tavern brawl; he simply went into hiding and as an outlaw wrote the plays since credited to Shakespeare. Proof of this theory, Hoffman figured, might well be found in the tomb of Marlowe's benefactor Sir Thomas Walsingham, who was laid to rest some three centuries ago in the parish church at Chislehurst, Kent...
...three years Hoffman plagued church authorities and Sir Thomas' descendants for permission to open the tomb. Last year, amid the storm of controversy that followed publication of Hoffman's book The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare," consent was reluctantly given. Last week Sir Thomas' tomb was opened. "We found sand. No coffin, no papers-just sand,'' reported the crestfallen Hoffman. Added the London News Chronicle: "Alas, not even poor Yorick...
...Womb to Tomb. For the tourist in trouble, American Express is a seasoned troubleshooter, will handle just about every imaginable disaster between womb and tomb. When an Egyptologist died abroad, she left a request that American Express have her cremated and scatter her ashes on the Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York...
What to Believe. A petition for the removal of Stalin's body from its place beside Lenin in the red granite tomb in Red Square was reportedly being circulated among party members. But the number of simple nonparty Russians queueing up for a look at the embalmed "leader and teacher" of Communism was as long as it had ever been. Asked if he had heard about the new line, an old Russian mumbled: "Criticism? Criticism? I am waiting for the mausoleum doors to open...
...Reality. But a myth does not die easily. Among those millions of Soviet citizens who had never played any part in the intrigues of the ruling hierarchy or shared their terrors, there was evident confusion. In Moscow the large number of people seeking to file through the Lenin-Stalin tomb (possibly out of curiosity, to check whether his body was still there) caused a reinforcement of security guards. In Georgia, birthplace of Stalin, the official disregard of the third anniversary of his death (March 5) aroused wide resentment. Next day, following a number of unofficial party meetings, thousands of young...