On Nov. 28, 1942, Cocoanut Grove nightclub inferno killed 492 people. “The priest asked me if I had a lipstick,” she said. “I wondered why, but I gave him my tube.” He used the lipstick to draw a cross on each victim as he gave the last rites. The dead and dying lay grimly unattended at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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