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...rare old soldier who limits himself to few speeches, retired General Omar N. Bradley, now board chairman of Bulova Watch Co., finally took pains to rebuke "a distinguished wartime colleague of mine." Said Bradley: "The best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and mothball his opinions." His target: Britain's retired Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who let Bradley off easy in his potshotting memoirs, more recently lambasted current U.S. leadership. Another Bradleyism for Monty to ponder: "So swift has been the advance of technology in our armed...
...vacation in Florida, General of the Army Omar Bradley, 66, now board chairman of the Bulova Watch Co., put on a sourdough getup and a super-Groucho mustache for a frolicsome "Yukon Night" at the exclusive Surf Club north of Miami Beach. Other Bradley diversions: sharpening up his mortar-accurate (high 70s) golf game, playing the ponies (he has one named after him) at Gulf stream track, where he showed a keen eye for long shots, made $26.20 on a $2 bet. Said an admiring friend: "He spends more time studying the form charts than anyone I ever knew...
MacNeil's first break was his selection by Gian Carlo Menotti for the role of the husband in The Consul. On Menotti's advice, he studied opera seriously for 2½ years while working nights at a Bulova Watch plant making analogue digital computers. With some misgivings, he finally gave up his $200-a-week job with Bulova to become a regular member of the New York City Opera. MacNeil now specializes in Verdian roles, plans at last to learn Italian. "Once," he recalls ruefully, "I was singing Traviata and flung my hand out because the music felt...
HAMILTON WATCHES will be assembled in Switzerland to take advantage of lower Swiss wages (one-third the level of U.S. wages). Swiss watch cartel voted to admit Hamilton, first firm to come in since cartel was started in 1934 (other U.S. watchmakers, e.g., Bulova, Benrus, began producing earlier in Switzerland...
Died. Arde Bulova, 69, chairman of the board of the Bulova Watch Co., Inc., who built the company from a small jewelry-making concern founded by his father in 1873 into one of the world's largest manufacturers of jeweled watches; after long illness; in Encino, Calif...