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...Says British-born, U.S.-naturalized Author Gibbings, himself an outstanding designer of modern furniture: The trouble with most modern designers is that they are less concerned with the customer's comfort than with the esthetic theories of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. In Homes of the Brave, wittily abetted by Cartoonist Mary Petty, he provides a caustic analysis of modern styles...
...distances and other hurdles, our correspondents continue to report their news each week to keep the editors informed. Sometimes they have a tendency toward the laconic answer if a story they are asked to check turns out to be mere rumor. There was the time, for example, when British-born David Cole, our part-time correspondent in Northern Rhodesia, received a query from New York and replied: "There, old chap. I think you're a bit up the pole. Absolutely no truth in your notion, and I've been having a hearty laugh ever since at the very...
Died. Sydney ("The Fat Man") Greenstreet, 74. British-born stage comedian turned Hollywood cinemenace (The Maltese Falcon, The Hucksters, Malaya); after long illness; in Hollywood...
Both the key men in the merger have spent most of their lives in tobacco. British-born Alfred Emanuel Lyon has been selling cigarettes ever since he arrived in New York in 1912 and asked Tobacco Products Corp., the makers of Melachrinos, for a job. "We don't need anybody," he was told. "Oh," said Lyon, "then you're selling all the Melachrinos you want?" He got the job, and by the time his employers launched Philip Morris cigarettes in 1933 he was a star salesman...
...this superselling started in 1837, when British-born William Procter, a candlemaker, and Irish-born James Gamble, a soapmaker, married sisters and went into business together. At the beginning, they peddled their crude soap and candles in a wheelbarrow in Cincinnati, then a frontier town. But as the region grew up, the company prospered. Soon its wares were being shipped by boat to New Orleans, Louisville and Pittsburgh, and gross sales rose to $1,000,000 a year...