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Candy & Drugs. Guinness can be grateful for the fact that the Irish have indeed been doing their duty. Making his annual report this week, Arthur Francis Benjamin Guinness, Viscount Elveden, 28, the sixth Guinness to run the company, was able to announce a $15.5 million profit, nearly double Guinness' earnings ten years ago. Other nations, in addition, are picking up the Irish sense of obligation. Guinness and the company's newer Harp Lager are now marketed the world over; more than $20 million worth is exported annually. Between exports and Guinness brewed in three overseas plants...
...Gate plant is still the company's principal operation, has grown into a 63-acre sprawl that is one of the world's largest breweries. The chairman's job and brewing secrets have since passed regularly from father to son except in one case. Viscount Elveden's father was killed in World War II, and today's incumbent took over at 24 from an aging grandfather. Although Guinness became a public company in 1886, it is still family-controlled. Along with Eton-and Cambridge-educated Elveden, eight other Guinnesses sit on the board. Like...
What of the Night? In Elveden, England, watchless Night Watchman Ian Jamieson was fined ?i ($4) for phoning random numbers during the small hours of the morning to ask the time...
...good-grade Britishers know, the owner "of Elveden Hall is the luxury-loving Viscount Elveden, first Earl of Iveagh. At 78 he is one of the most notable British exponents of la chasse de luxe. His huntsmen-guests are dined wherever they chance to find themselves at mealtimes, with the aid of an especially built traveling kitchen. Throughout his almost limitless estates there are scattered more than a sufficient number of hunting lodges, at which opulent shelter...
Others said, "The King is reported to find the informality at Elveden refreshing. It is significant that Colonel Walter Guinness, Lord Iveagh's younger son, has recently been appointed Minister of Agriculture in succession to E. F. L. Wood, who will go to India as Viceroy, succeeding Lord Reading...