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...duty. Denis' taste for "g & t" (gin and tonic), chums and golf is no secret. When he is not busy escorting his wife, he can frequently be spied on the exclusive golf course in Dulwich, the sedately elegant London suburb where the Thatchers own a large, two-story brick house for their retirement. After a round, he invariably speeds off to the clubhouse for a natter and a snort. He even launched a popular campaign against slow golfers with the argument: "After all, the quicker you finish your round, the more time you will have for a pint...
...little like The Wizard of Oz played backward. British journalist Tony Parker gets caught up in a brainstorm with his editor and is blown from batty Albion into the middle of humdrum Kansas. There, in Dorothy's native land, he finds not a winding yellow brick road but a grid of blacktop highways crossing one another at predictable right angles. Instead of tin men and cowardly lions, there is a pride of stolid citizens unashamed of their placid routines and quick with the thank-yous and have-a-nice-days. Wicked witches? Nope, but there is a local drunk...
Based in a 100-year-old converted brick mill in Paterson, N.J., Tweeds is the creation of refugees from rival J. Crew. Ted Pamperin, 48, Tweeds' chairman, had worked as J. Crew's executive vice president and Aschkenes as its merchandising director. Though paid well at J. Crew, the two partners were frustrated entrepreneurs. Says Aschkenes: "We didn't want to be sitting on rocking chairs when we were 80 years old, never having tried it on our own." They raised $6 million in venture capital financing and now control a minority interest in the firm. The rivalry with their...
Fortune had eluded Layne Heath. His brick business in Fort Worth had gone belly up. He had tried construction work and humping freight on loading docks, but without graduating far beyond the minimum wage. So to nurse his bank account and a romantic ambition, Heath pulled out his typewriter and tapped out a novel based on his days as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam. In March William Morrow and Avon Books paid Heath $300,000 for his novel, CW2 (after his former military rank, chief warrant officer, second grade). "Beats the brick business," says Heath. "But then, anything beats...
...some of what they see they may not recognize. While the venerable red brick of the Yard remains familiar, some say new additions to the Harvard skyline prove more puzzling...