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...Died. Henri Anatole ("Papa") Deibler, 76, wealthy perfumer, who as "Monsieur de Paris" (traditional name for France's executioner) pressed the button at more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career; of a cold; in Paris. As well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Daladier, "Papa" Deibler was latest of a 68-year-long line of Deibler-executioners. He rarely appeared in public except in his official capacity, traveled incognito in a private compartment. Few days after his death, his 80-year-old uncle, Leopold Desfourneaux, was appointed his temporary successor, to execute one Maurice Pelorge, murderer...
Like Mark Twain, Sir Henri Deterding once read a report of his death. Unlike Mark Twain, Sir Henri was shocked-not by the report but by the meagreness of his obituary notices, the fact that he was confused with an obscure brother. That was in 1924, and since then Sir Henri has had plenty of publicity, some of it furnished by himself, some by critics who called him "the most powerful man in the world...
Last week in St. Moritz he had a slight heart attack, apologetically told his doctor: "There's nothing much the matter with me." The doctor agreed and left. Before he reached the gate Sir Henri's wife came running after him, crying: "Doctor, Doctor, come back!" This time Sir Henri Deterding was really dead...
Kidnapper Rufus McCain, Robbers Henri Young and William Martin surrendered. It took a bullet through both legs to stop Kidnapper Dale Stamphill. For Arthur ("Doc") Barker, kidnapping associate of Alcatraz' notorious inmate Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, it took a shot in the head and death...
Thus writes Henri Ghéon, pious French Roman Catholic, in the recently published Secret of the Cure d'Ars.* Far from used up is the Cure of Ars: he was canonized only 14 years ago as St. Jean Baptiste Vianney. During most of his lifetime (1786-1859) the priest of an obscure village near Lyon, the Curé of Ars is today by papal command a model for parish priests the world over. Since it takes more than mere goodness to make a saint, M. Vianney (as Hagiographer Ghéon for brevity calls him) is easier...