Word: auchincloss
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...Douglas Auchincloss...
...author's fiction resembles the work of such writers as Louis Auchincloss, James Gould Cozzens and C.P. Snow, in that-whatever the theme-in the telling, reason's rule is absolute. This can be a chilly virtue as well as a limiting one, but the limits are generous in Davies' case. His perceptions are wry and tough. The description of one of Ramsay's friends gives the flavor: "He was the quintessence of the Jazz Age . . . It was characteristic of Boy throughout his life that he was always the quintessence of something that somebody else...
...arrive fully prepared with a tape recorder. "It was a good thing I did," says Fischer. "Although Mrs. Mitchell was suffering from a cold, we talked for 41 hours." Another recorder was on hand two days later when Fischer, Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, Researcher Amanda Macintosh and Writer Douglas Auchincloss met Republican Martha Mitchell and Democrat Barbara Howar for a discussion on women and power in Washington. Characteristically candid, Martha fired off some observations about TIME'S cover team. Researcher Macintosh, who lives in Manhattan, was obviously "too sweet to come from New York." As for leonine Writer Auchincloss, Martha...
...Nina Auchincloss Steers is the stepsister of Jacqueline Onassis and Lee Radziwill. She is also Vidal's half sister...
Next, the conquistador of the campus decided to turn his company into a conglomerate, the first U.S. corporate giant based entirely on the purchasing power of youth. "We find ourselves in situations similar to Carnegie and Sloan," Randell intoned. With the old-line firm of Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath managing the underwriting syndicate, N.S.M. went public in 1968 at $6 a share. In two years of frantic stock swapping and cash deals, Randell acquired 27 companies (a student-insurance concern, a poster maker, the publishers of Europe on $5 a Day). N.S.M. sales reached $68 million last year...