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...Socialist born in Wheeling, W. Va., Walter Philip Reuther was bred to worship God and to translate brotherhood into Socialist terms. His grandfather Jacob was a German Social Democrat who emigrated to the U.S. in 1892 to save his sons from military service. Jacob Reuther, a white-bearded Lutheran patriarch, often conducted Sunday services for his family at his farmhouse near Effingham, Ill. He felt that some churches "do too much for God and not enough for man"; he believed: "To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of God are alike impossible." Walter Reuther...
Died. Msgr. Antoine Pierre Arida. 91, bearded patriarch of Antioch and all the Orient, spiritual leader of some 500,000 members of the Maronite rite of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the Church's eight patriarchs, who rank just below the College of Cardinals; in Beirut, Lebanon...
...show that he was not feuding with all churches, Peron last week donned a full-dress uniform to receive the Greek Orthodox Order of the Holy Sepulchre, bestowed upon him in the name of the Patriarch of Jerusalem. It is easy for Strongman Peron to be friendly to other churches: in 93% Catholic Argentina, only one church poses any threat to his total control of the nation, or any obstacle to his aim of Peronizing the minds of Argentine schoolchildren...
Long a wealthy estate owner and patriarch in Recanati, near the Adriatic city of Ancona (he grows grapes, cures hams and plays boccie), Beniamino Gigli had left his home only to bid goodbye to his audiences-particularly, he said, to Americans. "I come not for the money or the artistic success to myself," he said, before taking off on a tour of major eastern cities. "I come for gratitude and for addio...
...Watson called it. He changed the company's name to International Business Machines, expanded still more. His high, stiff collars, his aversion to smoking and drinking, his vast store of aphorisms became trademarks of IBM to the outside world. Inside his company, he operated like a benign patriarch. IBM's workers were among the best paid in industry, had other benefits that few companies had. At company banquets, Watson liked to lead his employees in singing company songs such as his Hail to IBM* anthem. Every executive, both big and little, became a polished speechmaker, and all dressed...