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...terms he ruled autocratically, fought the New Deal, and brought Georgia education to a low estate with his witch hunts in schools and colleges. His rallying cry was "white supremacy." This week as his body lay in state under the state capitol dome, there stood nearby a huge floral wreath with the inscription "K.K.K...
...King stepped ashore, a small cloud veiled the sun. George looked up nervously. There was delay while elaborate security preparations were completed (no flower-throwing, no rooftop rubbering). Then, while thousands cheered and cannon boomed 101-gun salutes, the King drove through the streets, laid a wreath on the tomb of Greece's Unknown Soldier, attended a Te Deum Mass...
...Persia, after a brief unpublicized bout of baby-bussing in Russia (see cut): Princess Ashraf, sister of Persia's Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlevi. Under the auspices of the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, Princess Ashraf called on Stalin (who muttered good wishes for Persia), laid a wreath on Lenin's mausoleum, attended a physical culture parade, attended a tea given by Soviet President Nikolai Shvernik's wife, viewed Leningrad's Museum of Defense, The Hermitage, the Pediatrics Institute. For her pains, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor...
...most meticulous painter of deliquescence and decay, gave his new bride, the late Publisher Joe Patterson's daughter Josephine, a $125,000 present (his own estimate). The present: his famed That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do-a careful study of a mouldering wax funeral wreath on a grumous door...
...Midsummer Night, along the rivers of Holy Russia, the peasants used to dance and sing around the bonfires; each man floated on the water a wreath of wild flowers and grasses upon which he placed a candle, and whoever's candle burned the longest would, during the coming year, be the most fortunate one in the "village...