Word: burgesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frazers gathered last week by a visitor to their home. But Mark Frazer had another name, and another life. Almost seven years ago, as Donald Maclean in charge of the American Section in the British Foreign Office, he fled England with his hard-drinking, notoriously homosexual crony, Guy Burgess, also a Foreign Office man, on the very day British authorities were about to question him on spy charges. Twenty-seven months later, Maclean's U.S.-born wife and three children left Switzerland and also slipped behind the Iron Curtain, joining him at Kuibyshev, a town on the Volga where...
Maclean changed his name to Frazer probably because of his fear of the press; he is reported to have broken completely with Guy Burgess ever since Burgess gave an extended interview in Moscow last October to Tom Driberg, the British newsman and ex-Labor M.P. Both Burgess and Maclean share a continuing problem: alcoholism. Last summer, when Maclean went on an extended drinking bout that ended in delirium tremens, his wife nursed him back to health, but told friends she was fed up and was considering leaving him. Since then, Maclean has been on the wagon, and both...
When Carter Burgess, Assistant Secretary of Defense for manpower got the offer of the job as president of Trans World Airlines a year ago, he told friends: "Opportunity and danger are very much alike." The opportuniy was obvious: he took over the nation's fourth larges air carrier at $65,00 a year (v. his $19,000 Government pay) with the goal of getting it our of the red. The danger: eccentric Howard Hughes. T.W.A's owner. a boss as hard to please as a psychiatrist...
...whilee, Burgess, 41 appeared to be making the most of his opportunity. A seven-day-week worker, he rode the T.W.A. routes restlessly in search of flaws in passenger service, routed out T.W.A. executives to make them ride the routes on their days off, and trimmed the payroll. T.W.A.'s financial postion improved markedly. By the end of September, T.W.A. managed to show a nine-month 1957 profit of $2,400,000 v. $2,300,000 loss...
...doing so, harddriving, not over-tactful Burgess alienated many T.W.A executives, fell out with Hughes himself. Last week Hughes Tool co. (which owns 77% of T.W.A.) put out a short announcement;Burgess had quit as president and director of T.W.A. both Hughes and Burgess said that parting was "friendly," and Hughes praised Burgess for his "great engergy, dedication and devotion to T.W.A." But the two could not agree on how to run the airline and on future policy, and Burgess tore up his three-year contract...