Writer and wit Dorothy Parker died on this day in 1967. An epitaph she had proposed for herself:
"Pardon my dust."
Parker was cremated, and her ashes remained unclaimed for more than 20 years. In her will, Parker bequeathed her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation. In 1988 the NAACP claimed her remains and placed them in a memorial garden outside their Baltimore headquarters.
A famous Parker mot: After being told that former President Calvin Coolidge had died, she said:
"How could they tell?"
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