Word: britannicas
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...spur. As a newly commissioned subaltern in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, he searched impatiently for battlefields to prove his mettle. It was a poor time for the molding of heroes. The Industrial Revolution had raised Victoria's England to a position of surpassing wealth; Pax Britannica in all its majesty prevailed throughout the civilized world...
...girl. She also has a weakness for $1,200 South American skunk furs, for man-tailored suits that she designs herself, and other Barbrous whatsits that make fashion's top camp followers whinny for joy. As a walking encyclopaedia of haute kook, she was nominated for the Encyclopaedia Britannica's 1964 Book of the Year by Fashion Consultant Eleanor Lambert, who called her the embodiment of "the nonconformist spirit." In Los Angeles, though, a couturier who calls himself Mr. Blackwell ungallantly volunteered that Streisand looks more like "an unsuccessful hitchhiker...
...Renaissance." He has a collection of short stories that is selling briskly, and another half-written. "And they're doing a collected volume of my lyrics," he says with sculpted indifference. "I'm embarrassed to report that that looks like being the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. We shall have to do something about it. I fear I've written far, far too many lyrics." A Bit Far. Still he goes on writing them like a mad dog in the midday sun. He has a coop above Lake Geneva in Switzerland and another pad in Jamaica...
...leaving McCall's to become president of Alfred Politz Research, Inc., a market-research firm that already counts Curtis among its clients. Minow told newsmen that he was taking a temporary leave of absence from his duties as executive vice president and general counsel of Encyclopaedia Britannica to work on Curtis problems as a "special counsel...
...they should make it easy for Collins to go. They did, with 1) $60,000 in severance pay, 2) retention of the 1964 Cadillac, which was one of his perquisites of the N.A.B. office, 3) a color TV set, 4) a radio, and 5) a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...