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...Brash, bright and bent on getting ahead, Donald H. Parsons gave up practicing law and went into banking when he was scarcely 30 years old. In the 1960s, with astonishing speed, he put together a financial empire with $3 billion in assets that centered on a string of 19 banks, most of them in Michigan. But the Parsons Group foundered during the 1970 recession. Parsons was all but wiped out and forced out of banking. Even under new management, the flagship of his operation, Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth (B.O.C.), continued to sink into deeper trouble. Last week...
...apparent leader before the balloting began last week was Amintore Fanfani, 63, four times Premier and most recently president of the Senate. A short (he claims to be 5 ft. 6 in.), brusque, brash former economics professor, he is the candidate of the Christian Democrats, the largest party in the governing center-left coalition. Should he falter, former Premier Aldo Moro is more than willing to replace him. Moro, also a Christian Democrat, has visibly moved from the center toward the left of late, even as Fanfani was moving from left to center. Fanfani's other chief rival...
...high-rolling film business, seven of every ten releases are box office flops. Financing is drying up, and most studios have cut back to a handful of new productions a year. What would Hollywood make, then, of a brash little outfit called Hammer Films on a second floor in London's Soho district? Hammer is riding a streak of nearly 100 straight moneymaking movies. Last month it began shooting its tenth new production of 1971. So successful has it become at exporting its wares that it is a winner of the Queen's Award for Industry-a grateful...
Torregrecca (1969), Miss Cornelisen's first book-length portrait of this living past, was a small classic. A documentary written like a novel, it dramatized a cultural collision that set a slightly brash ex-Vassar girl trying to organize nursery centers against a cast of southern Italians as passively resistant as one of their mountain roads. Vendetta of Silence is a novel written like a documentary. "At the request of my publishers and my lawyer, I have agreed to call this a novel," the author comments in a prefatory note to what, among other things, is a murder story...
Vampire. Last October, Munves, 44, moved over to RCA as director of classical music and began applying his pop-oriented sales and packaging concepts to the company's Red Seal line. An engagingly brash, native New Yorker who got his start 22 years ago as a clerk in a Manhattan discount-record store, Munves approached Artur Rubinstein with the idea of a Rubinstein's greatest-hits LP. "You are a vampire," said the pianist, and refused. But Rubinstein did go along with a reassemblage of old items called The Chopin I Love. This month, Munves brought out eleven...