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Died. Edward Henry Scudamore Stanhope, 63, twelfth Earl of Chesterfield, who in 1935 succeeded to the title bestowed in 1628 by Charles I; of cardiac asthma; in London. The family name "Chesterfield" survives in the English language, associated with an overcoat, a sofa and an elegant manner. Best known of the Chesterfields: the fourth earl, Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), famed for his letters...
...prove that it can develop something more than sex and social realism. With its U.S. dollars, Italian Films Export is staging a Hollywood-like "Italian Film Festival" in Manhattan in October, which will offer a different production every night for seven nights. They include Gogol's satiric The Overcoat; De Sica's tragic Umberto D.; the comic Little World of Don Camilla, a story of rivalry between a priest and a Communist leader; and a love story, Two Cents Worth of Hope, which shared first prize at the Cannes Film Festival and stars 15-year-old Maria Fiore...
...dawn next morning a rescue party of experienced climbers set off up the mountain. It was mid-afternoon when they came back, pulling a lifeless, blanket-covered form on a toboggan. The vicar came out to meet them. Head bare, his overcoat collar turned up around his neck, he read from a prayer book: "Into thy hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend the soul of thy servant, now departed from the body . . ." Then he bent over the toboggan and wept...
Barefoot Boy. In his boyhood, Dick was a source of some family embarrassment. He wouldn't wear shoes. When the neighbors saw him walking around on cold days wearing a hat and overcoat but no shoes, some of them thought his parents couldn't or wouldn't buy him any. Not until he was twelve was he consistently shod. At 54 he still likes to pad barefoot around the farm when he is home, and around the house when he is in Washington. Says he: "I still don't like slippers...
Meanwhile, Bruce R. Recker '52, producer of "The Mikado," said that two cast members yesterday reported the theft of an overcoat and a suitcoat, bringing the total loss to over $300. Over $200 worth of coats, suits, ties, pocketbooks, and records were first reported stolen Saturday night...