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> Corpse at busy intersection in Osaka, Japan ignored for two months
A pointy yang to your pointed yin...
Rockers Eulogize Millionaire Mulheren
.c The Associated Press
RUMSON, N.J. (AP) - Bruce Springsteen led the mourners in Christmas
carols, Nils Lofgren sang ``Wind Beneath My Wings,'' and Santa Claus
rode on a vintage fire truck at the funeral for eccentric Wall Street
millionaire John A. Mulheren Jr.
Mulheren, 54, the chief executive of Bear Wagner Specialists LLC whose
1990 conviction for stock price manipulation was later overturned, died
Monday at his farm of an apparent heart attack.
He was buried Friday after a sendoff reminiscent of the elaborate
parties he threw.
``I had a feeling, knowing John, that his funeral would be a little
different - and I wasn't disappointed,'' said Mulheren friend Alan
``Ace'' Greenberg, former chairman of Bear Stearns Cos., which controls
Bear Wagner.
Family members, including Mulheren's widow, Nancy, and some of her seven
children, wore colorful holiday sweaters, and Mulheren lay in the casket
in a bright red suit. Laughter and cheers filled Holy Cross Roman
Catholic Church in Rumson, near Mulheren's waterfront mansion, during
eulogies by Springsteen and others that sounded more like standup comedy
routines.
Along with Santa, the funeral procession included Irish bagpipers and
drummers, an open carriage drawn by two Clydesdale horses, a male friend
dressed as Carmen Miranda, and a woman farm worker dressed as a
Christmas tree leading Mulheren's favorite horse.
Mulheren's brother, Michael, spoke of his ``overgenerous'' charity,
mostly to people who didn't know him.
The pastor, the Rev. Joseph Hughes, recalled that he once showed up at a
Mulheren Halloween party without a costume, and Mulheren promptly
outfitted him as a biker.
Along with Springsteen and Lofgren, mourners included musicians Jon Bon
Jovi and Bobby Bandiera, who performed Frank Sinatra's ``Young at
Heart.''
Springsteen, who spoke of spending many weekends with Mulheren talking
and jet skiing on the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers, then led the other
musicians and the overflow crowd of 1,500 mourners in one of Mulheren's
favorites: ``Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.''
> Thu Dec 18,12:58 AM ET
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> TOKYO (AP) - Police in western Japan said Thursday a man's dead body was
> ignored by crowds on a busy downtown street corner for two months before
> a taxi
> driver finally alerted authorities.
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> The body, believed to be that of a homeless man in his late 60s or early
> 70s, was
> found in front of a popular department store in the crowded
> downtown area of Osaka, Japan's second-largest city. A police official
> said it was
> partially decomposed by the time authorities collected it earlier this
> month. The official
> said the deputy chief of the local police precinct reported the corner
> is among the
> busiest in the city, with about one million people passing through the
> area each day.
>
> The official, who requested anonymity, said the cause of death had not been
> determined but foul play was not suspected.
>
> He said the taxi driver reported finding the body Dec. 4.
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