Word: banker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once a leader of Rome society and her husband was an Italian-Brazilian count. But last year Count Marco Fabio Crespi, slipped off to Mexico and got himself a divorce so that he could marry a Brazilian banker's daughter. Insisting that she is still the real countess, statuesque Vivian Stokes Taylor Crespi, 39, whose son, Marc Antonio, 10, is a Newport playmate of Caroline Kennedy, finally managed to get her case to court. Docketed for trial in Manhattan this month is her suit to have herself declared the count's legal wife on the grounds that...
...Think House. One reason for Rolls's pre-eminence lies in the fact that the company is run by engineers who have never compromised their technical standards to increase profit margins. Rolls-Royce's chairman, aloof Lord Kindersley, 63, is a banker who also presides over
Interrupting a Lake Como holiday. Konrad Adenauer hurried home last week for the funeral of one of his oldest friends. Cologne Banker Robert Pferdmenges, 82. To another man, the occasion might have served as a reminder of his own advancing years, but not to der Alte. At 86, after 13 years as Chancellor, Adenauer still relishes the power that came to him so late in life-and, though he has agreed in writing to step down in the fall of 1963, he is now looking for a way to cling to that power a little longer...
...hear the writers tell it. all writers have bad characters, if indeed they have any character at all. Matricides may be dealt with kindly in novels, an author may find a spark of good in a drug-addicted card cheat or a grasping banker, and it is an immutable law that prostitutes' hearts are warm. But let a novelist introduce a wretch whose vice is writing novels, and there begins a recital of character faults that would have horrified Caligula: the fellow is meanspirited, lazy, a coward, lustful but inept at sex. soggy with drink, cruel to his children...
Though they have learned to respect him, conservative-minded bankers have yet to be convinced that Saxon's bull-in-a-china-shop brand of vitality is what the system needs. The blunt, bustling son of a railroad traffic agent, Toledo-born Jimmy Saxon started World War II as General Douglas MacArthur's financial attaché, saved $80 million in U.S. bullion from falling into Japanese hands on besieged Corregidor; he just loaded the gold aboard a U.S. submarine that happened to need the ballast. From private business and long federal service, notably as top aide to Truman...