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Died. Nathan Straus, 72, civic-minded scion of a New York mercantile clan which built its fortunes on Macy's and Abraham & Straus, a sometime journalist (Puck, the old New York Globe) and first administrator (1937-42) of the U.S. Housing Authority; in Massapequa...
Died. Leo Carrillo, 81, lighthearted Latin badman of Viva Villa, The Gay Desperado and a score of other Hollywood mellers, the land-rich scion of a long line of California Spanish dons (including an early Governor) who became an actor by choice, not necessity, was credited with persuading Fellow Vaudevillian Will Rogers to spice his previously silent lasso routine with Oklahoma patter; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Last week Doug Dillon, the Harvard-accented scion of Cháteau Haut-Brion,* gave a typical performance before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. At issue was the restoration of a $16.9 million appropriation to hire 2,500 additional tax collectors that the House had cut from Treasury's budget. Because the Internal Revenue Service is understaffed, argued Dillon, more than $24 billion in personal income went unreported and untaxed in 1959; the Government's share of that hidden wealth would be more than enough to balance the budget. As usual, Dillon appeared without a retinue of aides...
Marriage Revealed. Margaret Wright Bedford Bancroft, 28, dazzling blonde lioness of the undergo international set, Standard Oil (N.J.) millionheiress and partypatetic hostess (sitdown dinner for 60); and Prince Charles d'Arenberg, 55, scion of one of France's first families, whom Peggy once dubbed "my little mouse"; she for the second time, he for the first; in Massachusetts...
...Scion of a wealthy landed Maryland family. Bruce led a Princeton campus revolt against the snobbish eating clubs, enlisted in World War I as a private, later won election to the Maryland assembly from a Jewish slum district, rolled up millions as a broker and entrepreneur (oil, race tracks, distilleries, newspapers), in World War II became chief of espionage and sabotage in Europe for the Office of Strategic Services, won military decorations from seven countries. As a postwar diplomat, lifetime Democrat Bruce helped to forge the Schuman Plan and European Defense Community. Last week the British could scarcely conceal their...