The black-robed rabbi glanced down at the casket covered with spring flowers. Facing him in the pews were nearly 2,000 men & women, great and small. Owen D. Young was there and so were Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, Myron C. Taylor. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Lucrezia Bori, many & many another. As the organ's whisper floated away, the rabbi said:
". . . In Louis Wiley power was conjoined with goodness, masterfulness of intellect with kindliness of heart. This man had it within him not only to do with all his might...
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