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They seemed unlikely protagonists for a tragedy. Sterling Rault, an outgoing and likable accountant for a New Orleans gas pipeline company, was married to his high school sweetheart and was the father of two children. Jane (Janie) Francioni, a slight, happy-go-lucky girl who delighted in lunching on Saturdays with her grandparents and aunts, was a 21-year-old clerk in the same office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Victim in This | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...Rault came to LEDCO in August as a $28,000-a-year assistant comptroller. He was returning to his native New Orleans after eight years with the Masonite Corp. in Laurel, Miss. Friends there remember him as an exemplary family man and something of a civic figure: he had served as vice president of the / Jaycees and ran the club's Christmas parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Victim in This | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...something had gone wrong with Rault. In 1981 he was caught embezzling money from Masonite. With the $166,000 he stole, Rault bought a larger house, built a swimming pool and took his parents on vacations to Disney World and San Francisco. "He flipped out," remembers a former associate. "He wanted the image of success, especially to impress his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Victim in This | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...Rault repaid the entire sum and was never prosecuted -- even though he was also suspected of trying to kill a co-worker who he thought had turned him in. The brakes on the man's car were cut while he and his family were attending church. Nevertheless, Rault managed to keep news of the embezzlement from his family when he returned to New Orleans and was hired at LEDCO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Victim in This | 9/7/1987 | See Source »

...favorite is Blue Memphis Suite (Warner Brothers), which features the incomparable singer-pianist Memphis Slim, backed by guitarist Peter Green (Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac), organist John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Duster Bennett on harmonica, Chris Spedding, Pete Winfield, and others. The performance of everyone, especially producer Philippe Rault, is absolutely flawless; the juxtaposition of early Forties blues structure with ultramodern instrumentation and arrangement completely transcends the concept of mere revival. It is a tour de force of textural and harmonic complexity within the blues idiom. On side one, expatriate Memphis Slim tells the story of his birth in Tennessee...

Author: By Charlie Allen, | Title: The Crimson Supplement | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

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