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...last resolving his boyhood bafflement, Cinemogul Cecil B. (The Ten Commandments) DeMille, a veteran purveyor of history as it should have been -with color, wide screen and brigades of extras-helped out New York City on a problem of medium-high learning. Donated by DeMille: four plaques, to be placed at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle, the 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, with a translation of the monument's hieroglyphics. For the occasion, DeMille recalled his urchin days in the wilds of the big city: "As a boy, I used to look upon...
Unbalanced Accountants. Pals since their boyhood and through the Canadian army, irrepressible Shuster, 41, and volatile Wayne, 39, are solid family men and neighbors in Toronto. They attended Toronto University together, kicked off professionally in 1940 with a radio show, now work out their inspired foolishness in "the joke factory," a tiny upstairs den at Shuster's house lined with learned tomes, as befits two scholars holding bachelor's degrees in English literature. Says Shuster: "In a Julius Caesar scene, we try to do it so no classics professor would quarrel with it." They have also spoofed Mother...
...From boyhood in his native Nashville, Tenn., Samuel Stritch led the way. He was only ten when he finished grammar school. At 16 he graduated with a B.A. from St. Gregory's Seminary in Cincinnati, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest at 22. When he was 34 he became Bishop of Toledo, the youngest bishop in the U.S., and nine years later he was Archbishop of Milwaukee. A decade after that, in 1940, the Most Rev. Samuel Alphonsus Stritch became Archbishop of the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.-Chicago-and six years later he was elevated...
Garden of Eden. Last week the most grandiose plan of them all, Frank Lloyd Wright's Grand Opera and Civic Auditorium, was unveiled. It is a fantasia right out of the Arabian Nights, and Wright, 88, a self-confessed Arabian Nighter since boyhood, meant it to be that way. "If we are able to understand and interpret our ancestors," Wright intoned, "there is no need to copy them. Nor need Baghdad adopt the materialistic structures called 'modern' now barging in from the West upon the East...
Harry Byrd's pay-as-you-go philosophy was personal as well as political; from boyhood, he paid as he went. Although he belonged to the eighth generation of one of Virginia's first families,* its fortunes were depleted when, at 15, he took over his father's down-and-out Winchester Star, worked part-time as a telephone operator to buy newsprint-which he paid for on a day-to-day basis. The paper prospered and, with its earnings, Byrd leased an apple orchard. He now owns about 7,000 acres and is the world...