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...making movies (War and Peace, Attila) with international casts and the specific purpose of tapping international markets, is the son of a small Neapolitan pasta manufacturer. In Britain, neither George Harriman, who as head of British Motor Corp. is the United Kingdom's biggest automaker, nor Financier Charles Clore, who has won fame as London's "Takeover King," can boast the once-traditional public school and university background...
...also led European manufacturers to move closer to one another in product styling. Since Genoa Industrialist Enrico Piaggio sent his Vespa motor scooters swarming through Europe as the first postwar apostles of the Italian look, Italy has become firmly established as the fountainhead of European design. Britain's Clore, whose multitudinous holdings include a corner on 22% of the British shoe market, makes periodic Italian tours to keep up with the latest in footwear; British Motor Corp.'s Harriman turned to Italian Stylist Pinin Farina to design autos that would sell better on the Continent. Harriman has also...
...began to call him "Mr. Birmingham" or "King Cotton" and joked about what their city used to look like "B.C."−"Before Cotton." Birmingham alone was too small for Cotton. He stretched out to London and overseas. By 1960, when he merged his City Centre Properties with Financier Charles Clore's somewhat smaller City & Central Investments Ltd. to form a $182 million firm, Cotton was easily the biggest real estate man in Europe...
EUROPE'S TALLEST HOTEL will be built in London by Conrad N. Hilton and British Financier Charles Clore (TIME, June 15). The 530-room London Hilton will tower 27 stories above Mayfair, cost $17 million, open...
LONDON'S TALLEST BUILDING, a $12 million, 34-story, 700-room luxury hotel, is planned by Conrad N. Hilton and British Millionaire Charles Clore. Towering 380 ft. over Hyde Park, 14 ft. higher than St. Paul's Cathedral, building would be taller than city's conservative codes now allow, but is expected to win official approval because of hotel shortage...