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Recently published have been two full-length, full-strength books excoriating the merchants of death-warming-over: The High Cost of Dying, by California Professor Ruth Mulvey Harmer (Crowell-Collier Press; $3.95), and The American Way of Death, by British-born Author Jessica Mitford (Simon & Schuster; $4.95). Both of them tend to tear down the mortician's carefully nurtured image as a compassionate, reverent family-friend-in-need and substitute an equally distorted picture of a hypocritical racketeer in black...
...encounters that rare species, the Vassar girl, Alan Simpson will no doubt remain a witty, candid and ingratiating foe of highfalutin humbug in language or learning. Not that he equates the straightforward with the rough-and-ready. British-born and an Oxford graduate, he joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1946 as a newly demobbed Royal Artillery major and rose to become dean of the college. "On coming to the United States," Simpson recalls, "I was struck by the style in clothes, cars, and homes, but unfortunately the American mind chugs along like a Model T - persevering and rugged...
...probes almost any subject deeply enough these days is likely to wind up needing more knowledge in a broad spectrum of many other subjects. If this is so, colleges may be able to make specialists who are sufficiently generalist. To give Chicago the proper atmosphere for such a development, British-born Dean Simpson envisions a switch to the English system of undisturbed reflection capped by rigorous exams-"a bracing combination of sauntering and sprinting...
Having toured the U.S. women's club lecture loop, British-born Ginette Spanier, directrice of Paris' Balmain fashion house, had a few words about American women yearning to be chic. "American women are so frightened about doing the wrong thing," she said, "and sometimes you can't blame them. There are so many fashion writers in America now that the poor dears are absolutely battered by waves of instructions. That's why when I speak to them, they seem to feel they're getting the God's honest truth. And they ask the most...
...purse strings that has made him the most sought-after wizard in today's advertising industry. It was Ogilvy who immortalized Hathaway shirts with Baron Wrangel's eyepatch and bearded Commander Whitehead for Schweppes. Cultivated, charming and handsome enough to model occasionally in his own ads, British-born David Ogilvy studied history at Oxford, served a Depression stint as a chef in a Paris hotel, and sold stoves door to door in Scotland before coming to the U.S. to work for Pollster George Gallup. When he set up his agency in 1948, Ogilvy made a private list...