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¶One evening President Hoover went to the Capitol, took a front row seat before the Senate rostrum. Before him rested a grey coffin in which lay the body of North Carolina's Senator Lee Slater Overman who had died that morning. The Overman desk (on the aisle, second...
Less obvious to the average U. S. citizen is the award of Dr. Soderblom. Newsgatherers recalled that their last story about him was when he dropped a key out of a rowboat after the funeral of the last of Sweden's famed Brahe family (TIME, June 30). There was...
Morand knows but disagrees with the opinion of many U. S. citizens that Manhattan is untypical of the U. S. Though he waxes elegiac on Manhattan's skyscrapers, he thinks "nobody now lives in New York for pleasure. One stays there just long enough to make one's...
". . . A great deal of worry is better than a funeral."
U. S. funerals continue extravagant, the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care reminded the country last week. Original investigation occurred three years ago. Reasons for extravagance: 1) the family wants to show respect, satisfy conventions, or "impress the neighbors"; 2) the funeral industry is wasteful and unorganized. Funerals cost...