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...confidential note that he gave to his aide 20 months ago. A Requiem Mass was celebrated in his parish church of St.Louisen-l'Ile, near the Pompidous' elegant seven-room apartment on the He St. Louis in the middle of the Seine. Some 400 mourners, including his widow Claude, his son Alain, members of the government and old friends, crowded the baroque church for the 50-minute service. His casket was draped with the French tricolor and, as he had requested, a choir of monks chanted ancient Gregorian hymns. After the ceremony, a cortege of black Citro...
Kazuo Shimada, a Tokyo psychologist, contends that Japanese mourners who cannot see the ashes of their fallen kin imagine the departed souls "aimlessly wandering and wailing for help." Explains one war widow who joined a senseki jumpai: "One night I dreamed a dream in which my husband stood in the corner of my room. He was full of spleen and said that even though he had committed suicide in a cave deep in a jungle, nobody had come...
...year-old Long Island widow came in with a scabrous painting that turned out to be an 18th century Italian portrait. A Westchester woman brought in a goblet that her family had bought at Tiffany's for $300 in 1894. Present value: around $12,000. A landscape owned by a man from Long Island turned out to be the work of the 18th century English painter Thomas Patch, worth a patch above $30,000. A Connecticut man brought in a trifle inherited from his Uncle Harold that was diagnosed as a contemporary portrait of George Washington on glass...
Married. Theodore Harold White, 58, veteran journalist and author of the four bestselling Making of the President volumes; and Beatrice Kevitt Hofstadter, 50, historian and widow of Richard Hofstadter, one of the greatest American history scholars of his generation; he for the second time, she for the third; in Manhattan...
...even hope to solve the haunting mysteries of Eliot's life until all existing information has been studied. At the moment, the Emily Hale papers (the bulk of a life-long correspondence) are doomed to dusty confinement at Princeton until January 1, 2020; and Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow and sole executrix, has so far felt bound to carry out her husband's expressed wish that no authorized biography of him be written. Even when the unpublished material is finally released, the character which Eliot himself made every effort to hide will remain deeply perplexing...