The Quick and the Dead

The undertakers of the United States held the fortieth annual convention of the National Selected Morticians in Boston. Undertaker is, however, an obsolete expression no longer in correct American usage, as the convention public relations officer pointed out. Mortician has for a long time been the accepted term, although funeral counsellor is now the preferred one.

The final banquet and dance of the Selected Morticians at the Hotel Statler was enlivened by the appearance of the current Miss America. According to the Globe, “the green- eyed beauty appeared in her official regal tiara. She created quite a stir.”