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...Broady was a man of unlimited interests, according to Emmanuel J. Rouseck, a vice president of the Wildenstein Gallery, one of the world's topflight dealers in international art. For five months Rouseck paid Broady $150 a week to listen in on the conversations (in four languages) of Dr. Rudolph Heinemann, an eminent art buyer. For months...
Marriage Revealed. Marlene Bauer, 21, topflight golfer, onetime barnstormer with her older sister Alice ("the golden Bauers"); and Robert Hagge, 28, towering (6 ft. 5 in.) golf pro; he for the second (his first: sister Alice), she for the first time; on Dec. 1, in Geneva...
Died. Arthur Honegger, 63, topflight modern composer (Pacific 231, Joan of Arc at the Stake); of a heart attack in Paris. Of the modern composer's plight, he said: "Music is dying, not from anemia, but from plethora. There is too much [talented] production and too little demand...
...father despised publicity," said Elizabeth Woodward Pratt. "As children, we were never allowed to be photographed." Her father, the late William Woodward, was a topflight U.S. banker, a figure in authentic Manhattan society and, as master of Belair Stud (Gallant Fox, Omaha), one of the most widely respected sportsmen on two continents. Last week the glare of worldwide publicity beat in a way it never had before on the Woodward family. Had the wife of William Woodward Jr. deliberately shot him in that darkened hallway in their Long Island home? Was it an accident? Was there a connection between...
Died. Bernard Grasset, 74, onetime topflight French book publisher (Giraudoux, Maurois, Mauriac) who was paid by Marcel Proust to print Swann's Way in 1913, after Proust had looked in vain for a publisher; after long illness; in Paris. Convicted in 1948 of collaboration with the Nazis, Grasset was fined 10,000 francs, sentenced to "national degradation for life...