Milestones, Dec. 22, 1958

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Died. Anabel Taylor, 78, wife of Myron C. Taylor, retired (1938) board chairman of U.S. Steel, personal envoy to the Vatican of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman; in Manhattan.

Died. Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, 78, longtime (1922-50) Director of Fine Arts for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute; in Miami. The son of Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and a first cousin once removed of Painter Winslow Homer, Homer Saint-Gaudens was first a journalist, next entered the theater, directed Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon. As a fine-arts specialist, he knew the touch of the poet, once said: "What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.''

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