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Mary F. Stanard sued his executor, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, for $66,666. Near Pontoise, France, ghouls tunneled into the tomb of munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharos, pried open the mahogany casket of his wife, supposedly in search of jewels falsely reported to have been buried with her corpse...
...Dyck, and other old masters from the Oppenheimer Sale of art works in London last summer. Outstanding in a large number of gifts of sculpture were a monumental Japanese figure of the 15th century donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, of Washington, a 13th century Gothic tomb figure in wood from Spain, donated as a memorial to the late Professor A. Kingsley Porter, and a bronze statuette of a champion stallion from Herbert Haseltine, the sculptor...
Four years ago, when about to sail for Russia, I found in my cabin on the Olympic a letter from a friend asking that I place a wreath on the tomb of Paxton Hibben...
Thus it will be seen that the Soviet Government believes it buried the body (not the ashes) of John Reed behind the tomb of Lenin. But it should be noted that the same document quoted above states that it had buried the ashes of Paxton Hibben in a niche in the Kremlin wall...
...lamp of life is nearly extinguished-my race is run, the grave opens to receive and I sink into its bosom. ... Let no man write my epitaph for as no man knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace and my tomb remain uninscribed until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then let my epitaph be written. I have done...