Word: bernard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...merriment, many a Londoner was cast into the dumps at news that what might well have been the biggest and best party of all was canceled. It was to have been given by irrepressible Norah Docker, the blonde and lively wife of Daimler's Board Chairman Sir Bernard Docker, in honor of her 50th birthday...
Though he is one of Britain's biggest industrialists, Sir Bernard Docker is better known in the sensational penny press than in the financial and society pages, and so is his wife Norah. There have been adoring pictures of Lady Docker playing marbles with factory workers, Lady Docker at a party given by one of London's most notorious criminals (Billy Hill), Lady Docker roguishly dancing the hornpipe for an audience of sheepish miners aboard the Dockers' 878-ton yacht Shemara. Although both are millionaires, the Dockers also made generous use of the expense account and position...
Unfortunately. Sir Bernard's company did not. Last year B.S.A.'s business began falling off: profits before taxes slid to $8,000,000 by year's end as the government's anti-inflationary credit squeeze pinched sales. The worse business got, the less the B.S.A. directors and the insurance companies that hold blocks of B.S.A. stock appreciated the antics and expense accounts of their board chairman and his lady. Last week, in a fiery, three-hour meeting, they unceremoniously fired Sir Bernard not only as chairman and managing director, but even as a director...
Pink Champagne. Next day the Dockers called in the press, poured out pink champagne and their hearts. Sir Bernard's father had helped build the B.S.A. empire; Sir Bernard had been chairman since 1938; and his fortune was founded around the company. Said Sir Bernard, cigar in hand, tears in eyes: "I've been sacked, sacked, sacked. When father left the board, they gave him a gold watch. For me they called a special meeting, and the only subject they discussed was my departure. Damnable." Cried Lady Docker even more tearfully: "It's not the loss...
...months pushed the station's audience rating from fourth to first place, made giveaways the city's No. 1 all-weather sport; e.g., one Sunday last October a $2,000 WHB cross-town treasure hunt caused such confusion that Police Chief Bernard C. Brannon said the pastime should be banned. WHB is now Storz's biggest moneymaker, grosses $2,000,000 a year...