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...himself described the job as one "nobody in his right mind" would want. But in 1954 Lawyer Henry Richardson Labouisse of Wilton, Conn, became director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Beirut, and took on the thankless task of caring for more than 900,000 Arab refugees from Palestine. Labouisse gradually broke down Arab resistance to UNRWA, traveled all over Europe describing the plight of his refugees and gently dunning U.N. members for funds...
Milestoned. In New Haven, Conn., John Murphy got a suspended sentence when he told a judge that the occasion marked the 500th time he had appeared in city court for drunkenness...
...year-old schoolboy in Switzerland, he bought 19th century French Realist Gustave Courbet's Château Bleu six months after graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls, and the lawn has a skyward-staring, 5½-ft. bronze, The Manipulator, by British Sculptor-Welder Reg Butler. Still sticking to his father's advice, "Never look for a bargain," Bareiss buys "only what I like...