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...French government gave him 24 hours to get out of the country, Garry took sanctuary on the steps of the U.N. administration building. There, sunning himself on territory that is technically international property, he relaxed and prepared to wait until U.N. acts on his case. His equipment for the vigil: a knapsack, a bedroll, a portfolio, a portable typewriter, a copy of The Fountainhead, the United Nations World, and TIME. Said Crusader Davis: "If the U.N. can't establish the status of one person, it's plain to see that they cannot...
...hung around the hospital ("Urchins from nearby brownstone houses and cold-water flats," sniffled the Daily Mirror, "huddled in the dark outside . . . fighting off tears when the news came"). For days, photographers had been carefully posing the children, chin-in-hand and with bat-&-ball props, to illustrate "The Vigil...
TIME had assigned a reporter to every candidate and important delegation to keep the "smoke-filled room" vigil, and to find and cover every caucus, press conference and "secret meeting." They worked 18-20 hours a day under the hot Philadelphia sun and the hotter 45,000-watt lights of Convention Hall, and about the only thing they missed was sleep. Senior Editor Duncan Norton-Taylor even managed to get around to Dewey's fashion show where, he reports, "the models wore garters with pink elephants on them . . . Furthermore," he added, "who should turn up in the Maryland delegation...
...amazed at the constant peering into the casket by those present and the conversation concerning the deceased as though she herself were lying in the casket and not her mortal remains. One niece kept a 48-hour vigil beside the body while it lay at the funeral home awaiting burial because she "didn't want Auntie to be left alone" Photographs were made of the body in the casket and distributed among the relatives several weeks later...
Last week Mrs. Melius (who has no children of her own) went back to being a housewife again. The taxpayers of tiny (pop. 53) Mount Washington, Mass, paid her $120 for her month-long vigil, and considered it a bargain. Under a Massachusetts law, every incorporated town is required to offer its citizens "an opportunity" for elementary education, or bear the cost of sending the local kids elsewhere. Parents of Mount Washington's three elementary pupils boycott the local school because the one across the state line in Hillsdale, N.Y. is bigger & better...