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...Founder William M. Davis, run Winn-Dixie as a team. James Elsworth Davis, 56, is chairman, and Artemus Darius Davis, 57, president; both maintain modest offices in the company's headquarters at Jacksonville, Fla., where they are known as Mr. J. E. and Mr. A. D. Brother Austin Davis, 52, is executive vice president in Miami, and Tine Davis, 49, has the same title in Montgomery. Each has an equal say in management and draws the same "salary" (one-half percent of pre-tax profits, less $25,000, which amounted to some $163,000 for each in the year...
...sales zoomed from 1,500 a year to 65,000, and the losses were wiped out. Nuffieid (he got his viscountcy in 1938) later broadened his line with the sleeker Riley and sporty MG, eventually reached a yearly capacity of 150,000. Finally, in 1952, Morris and rival Austin merged to form British Motors Corp., now the world's eighth largest auto company. Less than a year later, still peppery at 75, the Viscount Nuffield retired...
...Anne and Henry Ford-and many of those who didn't-were pondering the chain of events that led the U.S.'s most prominent industrial boss to legal separation-and to what seemed likely to be a European rendezvous with a hand some Italian divorcee named Christina Austin...
There was no suggestion of divorce. But at last the papers could break out pictures of the contessa, who turned out to be no contessa at all, but Maria Christina Vettore Austin. Born in Venice 36 years ago of well-to-do parents, she cultivated a taste for international high life, and married and divorced a British naval officer named William Austin, now dead. Christina and Henry Ford met in Paris at a party given by Grace Kelly Rainier...
Three months ago, an Austrian youth hid his East Berlin fiancee in the small luggage space behind the seats of an Austin Healey Sprite. Then he ducked his head and gunned the midget sports car (35½ in. high) underneath the last Communist barrier at Checkpoint Charlie with two inches to spare. Few believed that it could be done again, since presumably the Reds would now be suspicious of sports cars. Nevertheless, last week another enamored suitor with the same strategy in mind rented the same Sprite from the same West Berlin agency. Then Norbert Konrad, 26, an Argentine citizen...