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...church itself, there were only Coptic and Orthodox priests swinging censers over Christ's tomb, while in its dim reaches the Franciscans could be heard singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Dead City | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...stop. There Mackenzie King paid homage to the man who he believes is one of history's greatest. At the Pasteur Institute, where he asked photographers not to take pictures, he went down into an underground chapel, placed six red roses on the black marble tomb of Louis Pasteur. Then he knelt, his face in his hands, for three silent minutes. When he emerged his cheeks were wet with tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Sentimental Journey | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Louvain, twice destroyed by invading Germans, he saw students at work under temporary wooden ceilings. He remarked that the sight was a "magnificent example" of Belgian indomitability. On Armistice Day in Brussels, accompanied by Belgium's Regent Prince Charles, he laid a chrysanthemum and laurel wreath on the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Sentimental Journey | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Like Britain's, France's Socialist Government is dedicated to an economy planned from womb to tomb. Last week, in a five-page decree to France's morticians, Premier Paul Ramadier and Interior Minister Edouard Depreux offered a formula fixing the price for coffin-carrying in a two-horse hearse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cradle to Grave | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Jersey's Teterboro Air Terminal, just six miles across the Hudson River from Grant's Tomb, there was a lot of hustle-bustle last week. Lanky young pilots, many in their old Army flying jackets, darted about the coveys of DC-3 freighters and the smaller Piper Cubs, Cessnas and Beechcrafts scattered around the field. Steamrollers were snorting away, lengthening the landing strips to 4,500 feet. In a corner of the field, handlers coaxed a horse into a freight plane. Regularly, every minute or so, a plane took off or landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Nest for Fledglings | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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