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...Died. Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne, 74, old-school Belgian Ambassador to London, bemonocled dean of the diplomatic corps of the Court of St. James's; of a heart attack; in London. A diplomat's diplomat, he loved verbal jousts with the press, once defined his job: "A good ambassador is one who carries off the pork without spilling the beans...
...Theater who is tops is Andre Eglevsky, while John Kriza, John Taras, etc. are strictly still in the stage of development. Obviously no company in America can offer Frederic Franklin in such a wide variety of roles as the "Champeen Roper" in "Rodeo," the "Golden Slave" in "Scheherazade," the "Baron" in "Gaite Parisienne" and in a variety of classic roles ranging from "Les Sylphydes" to the "Nuteracker," and in such modern classical roles as "Danses Concertantes" and "Mozartina...
...retired from the Met in 1932, later divorced her Austrian baron, Leopold von Popper, and married Hollywood Producer Winfield R. Sheehan (who died last July). During the war she quartered G.I.s in her castle near Salzburg, and turned her California ranch into a free convalescent home for wounded soldiers. Since a Carnegie Hall concert in 1937, she has sung mostly on the West Coast...
...must to all men, Death came last week to the softspoken, knife-witted, twinkle-eyed author of this definition, himself a master-economist. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, died of heart disease on Easter Day at his manor of Tilton, Sussex. He had just returned from setting up the World Bank and Fund which he had helped to draft in 1944 at Bretton Woods...
Died. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, Great Britain's most brilliant socio-political economist and monetary expert, a principal architect of the Bretton Woods Plan; of a heart attack; in Firle, Sussex (see FOREIGN NEWS...