Word: patriarch
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Died. J. Anthony Smythe, 80, a real-life bachelor who was a father image to three decades of radio listeners as Hen ry Barbour, patriarch on One Man's Family, over which he presided for 26 years (until the program went off the air in 1959) with a mellifluous voice and an air of kindly concern about the trials of his growing family, striking a responsive chord with millions of fans who faced the Depression, the War and even the Kinsey Report comforted by hearing Father Barbour's paternal insights; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...intimates call him, won a 35-hour week for the I.L.G.W.U., pioneered such fringe benefits as medical and retirement plans. Always deeply involved in politics, he formed New York's Liberal Party and ran it as autocratically as his union-as one aide put it, "like Puck playing patriarch...
...portrait of the traveling monk Zemmui, a member of the Tendai Buddhist sect, which ranks as a Japanese Giotto. It is a masterpiece of the 11th century, when the Fujiwara shoguns reigned, encouraging the arts as the Medicis did in Italy. The unknown artist profiles the Indian-born patriarch, a posture seldom used before, and gives him a Japanese face. As a light touch, the great priest's shoes appear below his chair, casually kicked off rather than neatly lined up to conform to Japanese etiquette. The picture is incredibly shallow spatially; the chair legs appear...
...Youth Movement. Despite their adventurous outlook, all of the top men in Lehman's baroquely ornamented eleven-story headquarters at No. 1 William Street, a discreet short block away from Manhattan's Wall Street, are well past today's popular business retirement age. The presiding patriarch, Robert ("Bobby") Lehman, spare and spry at 73, controls the major part of the firm's capital, operates out of a jewel-box-sized office with just enough wall space for six small paintings from his $100 million private collection.* Though he concentrates on picking promising youthful talent, Lehman...
Died. Metropolitan Antony Bashir, 67, Archbishop of the 110,000-member Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church of New York and North America, a vigorous anti-Communist who in 1958, while in Damascus for the election of a new Patriarch, exposed a Soviet plot to seat its own Communist-oriented candidate by bribing some delegates with cash, gifts and free trips to Moscow, then led the fight to elect non-Red Patriarch Theodosius VI; of cancer; in Boston...