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...brother of St. Francis Xavier. More prosaically, his father was a salesman for International Shoe Co. "C.C." (for Cornelius Coffin) Williams was a gruff, aggressive man with a booming voice who was happiest, says Tennessee, "playing poker with men and drinking." His mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, was petite, vivacious, genteel and prim; she nourished rather illusory memories of a grand and gracious Southern past, of going to dances in Natchez and Vicksburg "on those big, beautiful plantations...
...homey chatter on gardening and pets, giving advisories on schools closed by weather, reading notices of church suppers, rummage sales and ice cream socials. Almost singlevoicedly, Gambling comes as close as anyone can to transforming New York Radioland into a single, small town community. He plays occasional records by genteel orchestras and hearty sing-along groups. When his show goes off the air at 9 a.m., there is no more music on WOR for the next seven hours...
From far off, British business may seem a genteel affair, but not when titans clash. Last week aggressive, research-minded Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. (annual sales: $1.6 billion) began the biggest takeover struggle in Britain's history. It broke off coolly polite merger talks with slow-footed Courtaulds, Ltd. (sales: $481 million), Britain's biggest maker of artificial fibers. Faced with stubborn resistance from Courtaulds' board, which is reluctant to be swallowed up, I.C.I, declared a proxy war, publicly offered to swap $560 million worth of its stock for all of Cour taulds' outstanding shares...
...afterward that she soon moves in with him. Their life together is the scrounging, violent hell without which she would have been disappointed. And Gorer keeps on painting, and cursing and talking-lewdly, sharply, wisely-and grabbing any woman who comes within his surprising reach. Commissioned by a genteel millionaire named Hanshawe to restore a mural in his country house, Gorer uses his idle time to seduce Mrs. Hanshawe. But this time Gorer gets his comeuppance. For Hanshawe retaliates by luring Cassy away from Gorer and marries...
Penzance still lacks what it never had, the tart flavor of real social satire, but in Guthrie's version it serves nicely as a gentle spoof of a genteel spoof...