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...Albina Patino and her children control 80% of the stock, she had, in effect, elected herself. But few would dispute her qualifications. When the door of the blue marble tomb at Cochabamba, Bolivia, clanged shut last May on the mortal remains of her 84-year-old husband, there was no one left alive who knew as much as she about the building of the empire. She had had as big a share as Simon in creating...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week laid his mellowed memoirs on the tomb of the New Deal. Although the wreath was appropriately floral, there were (also appropriately) some thorns among the roses. Excerpts from his good, grey story, written* at Bethesda Naval Hospital and soon to be published in two volumes by Macmillan, began appearing last week in the good, grey New York Times...
...Jesse Grant refused to attend the dedication of his father's tomb in New York until the city paid his and his family's round-trip expenses from Tia Juana...
...Soviet archeologists were studying a burial mound recently found in the Altai mountains near the boundary of Outer Mongolia. The mound showed a vivid glimpse of how the barbaric nomads buried an honored young woman some 2,000 years ago. Through the short summers of the Altai, the frozen tomb had preserved all its contents as if in a giant deepfreeze...
...tomb was the body of a young man lying beside the girl. He had been killed by a blow that crushed his skull. Perhaps he was a servant, or a warrior sent to protect her on her journey. The Soviet diggers favored a more colorful theory. Around the young man's face was tied a false beard. Perhaps, the fanciful diggers conjectured, an older, more powerful man had sworn to follow the girl over the frontier of death. Thinking better of it when the time came, he killed a youth and disguised his stand-in with a beard...