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Died. Francis Casadesus, 83, French composer (La Chanson de Paris) and patriarch of a famous family of artists, after long illness ; near Paris...
...notch closer to brother Tom Jr., 40, I.B.M. president. A graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale (class of '42), Arthur rose to major in Army Ordnance during World War II, returned to join the family company as a salesman in 1947. ¶ Donald E. Rust, 76, white-haired patriarch of the greeting-card business, was elected president and chief executive officer of United Printers and Publishers Inc., second largest U.S. greeting-card maker.-An ex-Colorado mining engineer, Rust quit his profession in 1906 to join his brother Fred in a Kansas City bookshop...
...Commandments. Like California olives, Biblical movies come in sizes ranging from mammoth up. The most mammoth of them all will certainly be The Ten Commandments, made by the patriarch of the industry's epic makers-72-year-old Cecil B. DeMille. It is a remake of his first big Biblical movie, made in 1923, though the present Ten Commandments is a straight biography of Moses while the older version paralleled the Bible story with a contemporary drama of lust and greed (starring Rod La Rocque, Richard Dix and Nita Naldi). Although responsible for such other triumphs as The King...
Giuseppe Sarto became Bishop of Mantua, then Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He was still poor, still giving away his few belongings and launching quixotic business ventures to help his flock. To one visitor he complained that a gold watch he had been given was engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan...
Perhaps neither political know-how nor vision is enough to account for the power and popularity of this Patriarch. When he drives through the tortuous streets of old Istanbul in the black Cadillac presented him by his Hollywood friend, Filmagnate Spyros Skouras, policemen all along his route come to salute. A reporter once asked one of them whether this was an official order...