Transport: Wasco Bombar's Funeral

Into a Pittsburgh church one day last week marched Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno and 77 automobilists convicted of drunken driving. In a coffin below the pulpit lay the corpse of one Wasco Bombar, killed by a drunken driver. Ranging the 77 culprits in front pews where they could see the coffin and a big wreath they had jointly bought for it, Judge Musmanno entered the pulpit to deliver a funeral sermon. Excerpt:

"When Wasco Bombar left his home in turbulent Europe to come to the land of peaceful America, he did not realize he...

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