Obituaries - June 19, 1998

Cardinal Carberry; Ex-St. Louis Prelate

Cardinal John Joseph Carberry, 93, retired archbishop of St. Louis. Carberry was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn in July 1929. In 1956, he was named bishop of Lafayette, Ind., by Pope Pius XII, and in 1965 was appointed bishop of Columbus, Ohio, by Pope Paul VI. Eight months after the death of Cardinal Joseph Ritter in 1968, Pope Paul VI appointed Bishop Carberry the sixth bishop and fifth archbishop of St. Louis. In 1969, Carberry was named by Pope Paul VI to the College of Cardinals, the third St. Louis archbishop to be so honored. In conformity with church law, Carberry submitted his resignation as archbishop on his 75th birthday in July 1979. In St. Louis on Wednesday.

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W. Schwann; Founded Record Catalog

William J. Schwann, 85, who began the Schwann Record Catalog of music listings. Schwann’s first catalog, which he published in 1949, was 26 typewritten pages listing 674 long-playing records of works by 98 composers on 11 labels. The initial run of 6,000 sold out within one week at 10 cents per catalog. Schwann, who opened the Record Store in Cambridge, Mass., in 1939, said he came up with the idea for the catalog when he got tired of having to look up recordings in different company lists. The catalog grew to include listings of eight-track tapes, cassettes and CDs as well as LPs. The listings have included classical, jazz and popular music, and comedy, children’s and self-help recordings. Some months, it listed as many as 45,000 recordings. Schwann sold the catalog, now published twice a year, to ABC in 1976, but continued to run the operation for several years. Schwann was on the board of directors of the Boston Ballet, the Longy School of Music and the Marlboro Music Festival. He was a subscriber to the Boston Symphony, and was friends with Aaron Copland and other composers and musicologists. In Burlington, Mass. on June 7.

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George Xanthos; Superior Court Judge

George Xanthos, 74, a Superior Court judge appointed to that position in 1983. He had been in private law practice since 1961, when he was admitted to the bar. In 1982, he was named to the Municipal Court, serving in Traffic Court before being elevated by Gov. Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. the following year. In Tarzana on Tuesday of cancer.

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Martin Stone; Radio, TV Producer

Martin Stone, 83, a broadcast producer and entertainment lawyer who put “Howdy Doody” on the air in the early 1950s and “Author Meets Critic,” a book program than ran on NBC, ABC and the early Dumont network. In the early 1960s, Stone helped set up a group of AM and FM stations in New York and New England, and broadened the programming to include Big Band music and newscasts. In 1952, he served as an advisor to President Harry Truman who was seeking advice on his post-presidential employment possibilities. In Washington on June 7.

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