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PAUL A. H. DE MACARTÉ Tolland, Conn...
...years turned out more than a dozen films; in New York he directed Mary Martin in Lute Song and Robert Ryan in Coriolanus. Trying television, he produced Playhouse go for two seasons. Most notably, however, he was artistic director of the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., built it from an initial failure into a successful operation in four seasons. He quit in disgust two years ago when the trustees would not let him establish a permanent repertory company...
Died. Walter Clark Teagle, 83, former president and board chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey, a brilliant industrial strategist with the bulldog build and weatherbeaten face of an oilfield rousta bout; after a long illness; in Byram, Conn. The son and grandson of wealthy oilmen, Teagle rebuilt Standard after it was fragmented by a court decree in 1911, before he retired in 1942 mapped the overseas operations that made the company a world power in oil, but spared enough attention from his headlong expansion of Standard to pioneer in worker representation on refinery councils and (in 1915) the eight...
...winners this year include Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.), novelist John Dos Passos, Herbert Hoover, Gen. Edwin Walker, Prof. Richard M. Weaver, John Wayne, columnist David Lawrence, and editor M. Stanton Evans...
Last week Mildred Paperman disappointed again. Wearing a lampshade cloche on her curls, she appeared in court in answer to her summons, was accused of smuggling unauthorized papers and letters to her hapless boss last summer, when he was in the Danbury, Conn.) Federal Correctional Institute. One of her letters contained eloquent testimony to her loyalty. "My only ambition in life," she wrote, "is to see you get out." Instead, Mildred Paperman went in, wearing an inscrutable smile, to serve 30 more days for her devotion to Bernard Goldfine...