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...Lord Chamberlain is the senior officer of the royal household. Yet he and his four readers have also played the role of arbiters of public taste, passing judgment on some 800 new scripts each year. Their esthetic qualifications have been uncertain at best. The present Lord Chamberlain, Lord Cobbold, 64, is a former governor of the Bank of England. Cobbold is generally respected for his liberal views on what is dramatically permissible, but many of his predecessors have been less enlightened. George Bernard Shaw once complained that the Lord Chamberlain "robs, insults, and suppresses me as if he were...
...Brooks's U.S. venture was Managing Director Edward Tatham, who abbreviated the name of the whisky to J. & B. on finding that Justerini & Brooks was too much of a mouthful for U.S. bartenders and elbow benders. Tatham, now 63, has passed active management to Co-Managing Director Ralph Cobbold, 55, a brush-mustached, ex-Coldstream Guards officer who was captain of cricket at Eton and won his blue at Cambridge. Though a four-way fight for first place in the U.S. Scotch market is shaping up. Cobbold is certain that there is one tactic he will not use: price...
...Wilfrid Eady, bone-tired after a year and a half of financial negotiations with Canada, Argentina, India and Egypt, had been dispatched to Washington, along with other financial experts. Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, was vacationing in the south of France. Set in rapid motion by the crisis, he "dipped down" in Britain for a quick check with Whitehall and the Bank of England's headquarters in Thread-needle Street, arrived in the U.S. unshaven and with his old school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants...
Sweating out" the American loan had been bad enough for Britain. Now Sir Wilfrid and Cobbold, on behalf of the nation that only yesterday was the world's banker, had to ask financial peoples whom many Britons still regard as of the "subject races" to show Britain financial mercy...
...Eady and Cobbold could remind the creditors that: "It was your war as well as ours." But the best argument was simply that if everybody demanded his full pound of flesh, there would not be enough to go around. Before his death, Lord Keynes had spoken his mind about those sterling debts: "If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy...