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...intra-mural trophy to be competed for annually by House teams, Percey S. Straus '97, one of the donors of Straus Hall, has given a silver coffee urn to the College...
Relatives of Germans beheaded nowadays usually receive a sealed Nazi urn supposed to contain the ashes. Last week perhaps because she came of one of Prussia's first fighting families, Nazis did not cremate the remains of beauteous Baroness Benita von Falkenhayn, who lost her head fortnight ago while Polish Baron George Sosnowski, her master in amours and spying, was let off with life imprisonment...
Josef Stalin had brought the corpse of Dear Friend Sergei personally from Leningrad on a special train, its engine decorated with a huge "STALIN." After lying in stale in Moscow's onetime Nobles' Club, the corpse was cremated and the ashes poured into a bronze urn. This the Dictator and other pallbearers carried to a niche in the Kremlin wall after two hours of speechmaking. Their keynote: more and better vengeance. Cried Premier Vyacheslav Molotov: "We swear to carry on a merciless fight against every enemy of our Revolution...
...Lady of the Plaza had fallen into such disrepute that the city turned off the water from her urn. Her porous limestone base had sucked up moisture like blotting paper, had cracked and chipped with each winter's freeze. So dirty and neglected were her face and body that Versifier Arthur Guiterman complained about it in The New Yorker. In an answering rhyme Ralph Pulitzer promised action...
...glassy calm day and of an old salt who sits at the sea's edge endlessly watching. Again, to show his versatile nature, Dario has written a poem called "Friso" (Frieze). Here classical images and classical scenes are handled in a manner reminiscent of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Some of the best poems in the collection are by Ruben Dario...