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Henry Sloane Coffin, President, Union Theological Seminary...
...national in its scope." Possible allies of Colonel Lindbergh are such men as William B. Mayo, chief of the aircraft division of the Ford Motor Co.; Harry Knight, Harold M. Bixby and William B. Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones, skillful pilot; Chester W. Cuthell, onetime U. S. Shipping Board counsel. It seemed likely that this group would form a huge corporation, would put ships in the skies to compete with the Bellanca planes over...
...sumptuous Castillo de Chapultepec (Castle of Grasshopper Hill), an edifice of imperial magnificence, begun by the Spanish Viceroy Don Matias de Galvez (1783), the coffin of Señora Calles was lifted from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess...
...hours later the coffin of Señora Calles was conveyed to the neighboring Panteón de Dolores, the national cemetery. There a battery of artillery fired the presidential salute. Minister of Education Puig Casauranc pronounced a brief, non-religious address, alluding matter-of-factly to the future life. This was deemed fitting because of the anti-religious views and policy of Señor Calles and his Cabinet (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, et seq.). Because Señora Calles was a devout Roman Catholic, persons of that faith rejoiced to hear that a priest had performed appropriate last...
Mysterious Smith apparently had no difficulty in getting out of a straightjacket inside of a roped coffin...