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Died. Maurice de Wendel, 82, last survivor of the seventh generation of dynastic Lorraine iron and steelmakers, who as head of "The Grandsons of Fran-gois de Wendel and Company" managed an industrial empire that last year amassed sales of more than $300 million and carried on a tradition of benevolent feudalism that included schools and hospitals and cultural centers for De Wendel workers; of a heart attack; in the family chateau at Joeuf, near Nancy in the Lorraine...
Died. Joseph Cardinal Wendel, 59, Archbishop of Munich, widely known as the "Bishop of Peace" for his post-World War II travels to rebuild good will for West Germany; of a heart attack after delivering a New Year's Eve sermon; in Munich...
Waiting for Progressing's race that afternoon, Mr. Fitz sat on a wooden bench against a sheltered, sunny wall and chatted with dozens of friends and dozens of strangers who pressed against a nearby fence ("Howya feeling, Mr. Fitz?" "I'm feeling fine now"). Then Groom Wendel Griffith brought in Progressing, and Mr. Fitz set to work. Progressing began to act up badly. "Stop trying to put your paw in Wendel's pocket," said Mr. Fitz. He bent under the fidgeting horse, tapped him lightly on the knee with his wooden cane and scolded: "Stop that!" Progressing...
...Protestants was closing. In Munich Kirchentag delegates found themselves in the heart of Catholic Germany. It was the largest body of Protestants to descend on Munich since the armies of Gustavus Adolphus captured the city in 1632, and their advent was a great success. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Wendel took in Danish Bishop Frode Beyer and his wife as house guests, and many a Catholic family followed the cardinal's example. All over the city, for the Kirchentag's five days, Catholics and Protestants explored areas of common religious interest in a tone that was far different...
...helped to defend the Bulgarian Communist, Georgy Dimitrov, in the Reichstag fire trial, and much later he spoke up for the rights of Nazis in the German-American Bund. He got his biggest fee-$578,000-in 1933, when he successfully broke the $50 million will of Ella Wendel, an eccentric spinster, on behalf of 60 heirs. In the '30s he defended Wall Street brokers, when he thought the SEC was trampling on their rights. "I hate censorship of business as well as of books," said Hays, who became rich on the fees of his banker and broker clients...