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...BP at Play...
...tennis shorts in his waist size (32 in.). He picks up gossip by mixing with the Beautiful People at night and attending the parties that Fairchild shuns. In fact, the entire staff of WWD is expected to keep a lookout for potential "Eye" specks, whether they regularly cover the BP scene or a trade beat like "intimate apparel" (known in the pre-Fairchild era as "girdles and bras...
...BP: beautiful people; trend setters; the In crowd...
...fashion victims; BP whose clothes wear them instead of the other way around...
...British view, a merger between BP and Sohio is as logical a combination as prosciutto and melon. The North Slope strike and the Sinclair acquisition, says BP Chairman Eric Drake, left BP "with an oilfield at one end of the country, a market at the other, and Sohio in the middle." Sohio, which has some 3,500 gas stations in the Midwest, is renowned for its refining and marketing organization, but it has not had access to enough crude oil to permit expansion. So the companies .agreed to have Sohio take over BP's U.S. marketing, with BP supplying...