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Destroyers & Dinghies. Scott has not had an indolent moment since. He has been, at one time or another-and usually simultaneously-a successful author (eleven books), artist (exhibitions in London and New York), and TV commentator (covering the Royal Wedding). A British navy commander in World War II, he served...
Then the New York legislature finally relented last April. For a $1,700 annual fee, theaters will be able to operate their own bars. The new law will not go into effect until Oct. 1. This was a little awkward for Arthur Cantor, producer of a revue called The Committee...
Died. Marx Hirsch, 76, recently retired president of Molybdenum Corp. of America, who helped found the company in 1920 to refine steel-hardening molybdenum, in 1950 made a major splash when his prospectors discovered, near Mountain Pass, Calif., the world's largest deposit of exotic "rare earths," whose yet...
In Paris' Flea Market, a six-inch Gallé vase, which only a year or two ago would have sold for $30 or less, recently brought $130, sending antique dealers scurrying to their basements in search of other long-discarded bric-a-brac. In Britain, where the revival has...
The hopes of California's Lockheed Aircraft Corp. seemed to crash in 1959 with its ill-starred Electra turboprop airliners, which eventually cost $25 million to modify and were largely responsible for driving the company $43 million into the red in 1960. Many wrote Lockheed off after this debacle...