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...film farce called The Captain's Table, which chronicled the social perils of a luxury-liner captain adrift in a sea of calculating female passengers. Last week all England was agog over a real-life-setting of The Captain's Table. The captain: a tall, debonair Irishman named James D. Armstrong, master of the 28,000-ton Cunard liner Britannic, The plot: he had been royally sacked by Britain's staid, prosperous Cunard Steamship Co. just a few months before he was due to become master of the Queen Mary, and eventually commodore of the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Captain's Table | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Died. Carle Cotter Conway, 81, dynamic, debonair chairman (1930-50) of Continental Can, who in his long (1912-58) career broadened the use of can containers, steadily increased the number of his plants, boosted sales from $70 million in 1933 to $398 million in 1950, as a liberal-minded businessman headed and whipped into action the nine-man committee appointed to reorganize the Stock Exchange, saw his own recommendations embodied in the Exchange of today; in Lake Placid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Thin Man (NBC. 9:30-10 p.m.). Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk tangle in their debonair fashion with a character who claims to be the last of the West's badmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

MUSICIANS make the best businessmen. I'd much rather be represented in a business deal by Stravinsky than any lawyer you could name." So says Goddard Lieberson, 47, the handsome, debonair president of Columbia Records. Lieberson ought to know. He is a musician (piano), composer (more than 100 pieces), novelist (Three for Bedroom C) and top-notch businessman. He has made Columbia the biggest seller of long-playing record albums (which now account for more than 70% of all records sold) and doubled its sales (now more than $50 million) since he took over as president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Musical Businessman: GODDARD LIEBERSON | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

Police Justiciaire. By last week debonair, highly respected Jean Lacaze, complaining that "I am the victim of a blackmail plot," was in Santé Prison. His secretary Madame Richard broke down and confirmed Maïté's story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: LAffaire Lacaze | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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