People, Dec. 6, 1954

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

In the flickering light of oil lamps, five gravediggers. working before dawn in London's Highgate Cemetery, dug up the moldy, plain elmwood coffin of Karl Marx, father of Communism, whose remains had lain undisturbed for almost 62 years, ever since he died peacefully in his small London house. They reburied him in a larger Highgate lot, some 200 yards away. There, Britain's Marx Memorial Committee will erect a polished black granite monument (estimated cost: $14,-ooo) with a reverent inscription.

Cinemactor Marlon Brando, who used...

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