Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Profits. Elson also describes the courtship that landed Winston Churchill's memoirs in LIFE (and the New York Times). It began with the purchase of some Churchill paintings as well as his secret wartime speeches to Parliament (which Luce found boring). Getting rights to the great man's memoirs cost LIFE $750,000, not to mention picking up the check for Churchill's frequent vacations in Marrakech. Was it worth it? LIFE's circulation department found that the memoirs had a "devastating effect" on newsstand sales. But, says Elson, "Luce took a more elevated view...
...Model 165 computer has been put to work making matches. For 8,000 yen (about $30) a Mitsubishi worker can get the names of as many as ten employees of the opposite sex best matched to his or her own talents, traits and concept of an ideal mate. Eight courtship counselors, most of them wives of Mitsubishi executives, guide candidates in making final selections. "Mitsubishi boys and girls spend a lot of time and money in search of their future husband or wife," says Hiroyuki Ito, a former Mitsubishi insurance executive who heads the mating effort...
Some 260 employees have taken advantage of the service since it began two months ago, and a dozen couples are in initial stages of courtship. So far there have been no weddings. Arranged marriages represent a persistent tradition in Japan-one recent study estimated that 20% of matches in Tokyo are still put together by parents-but company counselors insist that they exert no pressure on employees to marry their printout partners. Mitsubishi executives do admit that they value such intramural mergers. Says Ito: "When the wife shares the same corporate frame of reference with her husband, she can only...
...DALLAS, Rentzel seemed to have finally found a home. He started for the Cowboys in 1967, became an all-pro in 1968. On April 12, 1969, he married Joey Heatherton after a courtship widely covered by national media...
CUKOR FILMS THE HEYDAY she remembers as an advertisement for the gay life. She lived on champagne in Grant Hotels with vast baroque rooms, and parlors caressed by generations of gamblers. Life was a spirited courtship of romance itself, all style and peacockery, quick passion and gondolas...