Word: armande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pursued Kauzov with phone calls, telex messages and couriers, and a visit to Moscow late last year. Meanwhile, Sergei filed for divorce from his cellist-wife Natasha, gave her custody of their nine-year-old daughter, and moved in with his mother. In June, Christina told U.S. Oil Magnate Armand Hammer, a longtime family friend, that she was off to Moscow again, this time to marry Kauzov...
...author's good sense in becoming an American is readily apparent, especially to Americans. To him France is all but fossilized, and his highborn relatives there are wholly so, as the funniest parts of his account maliciously attest. (Ted Morgan's Uncle Armand once brought Marcel Proust to lunch. Afterward the due de Gramont, Armand's father, handed his guest book to the already famous author "and with the total disdain of the nobleman for the artist, said, 'Just your name, Mr. Proust. No thoughts.' ") The U.S. he sees as still an open society, free...
Dealing with Armand and Agha and Jimmy...
...dealing to buy control of Financial General Bankshares Inc., the second largest bank holding company in Washington, D.C.; with assets of $2.2 billion, it controls the Union First National Bank of Washington and close to a dozen other banks in Maryland and Virginia. At a meeting set up by Armand Hammer, who is chairman of Occidental Petroleum and a Financial General board member, Lance told the bank's senior officers he was acting for the London-based Bank of Credit & Commerce International, which specializes in managing Arab funds. At week's end, a group of Financial General shareholders...
DIED. Dr. Armand James Quick, 83, renowned medical researcher who did pioneer work on blood disorders; in Milwaukee. Soon after getting his M.D. from Cornell, he developed what came to be known as the Quick test, a method of determining the clotting ability of a patient's blood and of helping to diagnose various diseases. Later research led to new tests for hemophilia. Working at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, he recently identified a new vitamin, appropriately named vitamin Q, which is found in soybean extract and which plays a part in the body's control...