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...buyer and seller together is the job of white-haired Humphrey Finney, 58. who rules Fasig-Tipton Co., an $8,500,000-a-year horse-trading enterprise that extends from Saratoga to stud farms in England. France, Australia and South America. After 24 years as an auctioneer and "pitchman." British-born Finney knows as much as any man about the cash value of good horseflesh-and about the strange habits of the bidder. Finney scornfully tolerates parvenus whose extravagantly high offers make no horse sense, pointedly admonishes bidders when he thinks the offers...
...Born. To Jean Simmons, 32, hazel-eyed, British-born cinemactress, and Richard Brooks, 49, who directed her in his Oscar-winning Elmer Gantry: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
BOTH admen and advertisers got their lumps from the British-born president of Lever Bros, of Canada, John C. Lockwood, 48. He told Toronto admen that their industry's output was "dull boring, unimaginative, uninspiring and languid" and that "the biggest hidden cost in marketing today is probably ineffective advertising." Contrary to many TV critics, Lockwood thinks advertisers pay "too little attention to their TV commercials and too much attention to the programs." Phony commercials Lockwood fears, have made cynics of housewives and schoolgirls alike will have "far-reaching detrimental effects" on the ad industry...
Married. Martyn Green, 61, ebullient British-born Gilbert and Sullivan star who lost his left leg in an agonizing penknife amputation after it became wedged in an elevator shaft in 1959, but returned to the stage with an artificial limb and danced a jig in Knights of Song; and Yvonne Chauveau, 39, a model; he for the third time, she for the second; in Rowayton, Conn...
Married. Eunice Bailey Oakes, about 32, British-born beauty and the widow of William Pitt Oakes, whose father, Sir Harry Oakes, was mysteriously murdered in Nassau in 1943; and Robert David Lion Gardiner, fiftyish, longtime bachelor and owner of Gardiner's Island, a 3,300-acre tract off eastern Long Island that has been in the family since 1639 and that becomes the property of Yale if there are no Gardiner heirs; in New York City. An outpouring of diamond-studded society made it the winter's most glittering wedding...