Word: blandford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some weeks ago, during the very particular and graceful lull of an English Sunday afternoon, two American travelers stopped by a pub in the village of Blandford, Dorset. The air was thick with Player's smoke and jollity, the sound of gentle joking, the slide and click of coins across the worn wood of the bar, and the easygoing strains of the new Eagles album...
...adept and insinuating work by the regents of California pop, had already crossed the ocean, penetrated cultural barriers where some resistance might have been anticipated, and found a snug home for itself. Besides being a reminder of the international power of American pop music, hearing The Long Run in Blandford helped to take the Eagles out of cultural context. It lifted them from the category of stainless-steel Los Angeles pop, in which they are usually confined on their home turf, and let their music stand free of preconceptions. It sounded good...
SUPER-WEALTH: THE SECRET LIVES OF THE OIL SHEIKHS by LINDA BLANDFORD 319 pages. Morrow...
What goes on behind the garden walls of oil-rich Arabs? Linda Blandford, an English journalist, decided to find out. Her book is no better than her superficial investigations, but they are not without a certain gossipy appeal...
Married. Stavros Niarchos, 62, millionaire Greek shipowner; and Tina Livanos Onassis, 42, recently divorced from the Marquess of Blandford; he for the fifth time, she for the third; in Paris. The ceremony marked the latest round of marital musical chairs, Olympian division. Shortly after World War II, Niarchos and his business rival, Aristotle Onassis, courted and won the daughters of Shipping Magnate Stavros Livanos. Tina wed Onassis, whom she later divorced. Niarchos, in the meantime, married and divorced Tina's older sister Eugenie. Later, he wed Henry Ford II's daughter Charlotte, then returned to Eugenie, who died...