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...play about the life of Georg Buchner, the nineteenth-century German playwright, has won this year's Phyllis Anderson Play Award, A Public Exposition, by Charles F. Sabel '69, was chosen from among eighteen unproduced plays by Harvard students to receive the honor...
Almost to a man, store managers report a decline in sales of expensive items like jewelry and furs and a shift to cheaper and more practical gifts like electric hair combs and digital clocks. In Manhattan, Lord & Taylor advertised a selection of gifts-nothing over $8. Georg Jensen's found that normally fast-moving $1,500 jewelry was being passed up in favor of the $25-to-$125 variety. "The best-known store in Texas has dropped from its popular Christmas catalogue the traditional tips on "How to spend a million dollars at Neiman-Marcus...
...revered De Gaulle as the father of their freedom. Several faces from the past turned up, notably Israel's Elder Statesman David Ben-Gurion, former British Prime Ministers the Earl of Avon (Anthony Eden), Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson, and former West German Chancellors Ludwig Erhard and Kurt-Georg Kiesinger. Seated among the 6,000 mourners in Notre Dame was Senator Edward Kennedy, who remembered De Gaulle's immediate decision to attend the presidential funeral of his brother John in 1963. In the north transept, easily recognizable despite dark glasses and a dark kerchief, was Marlene Dietrich. Notable...
...hulled sailboats. Quite naturally, the agency plans to handle Snark's advertising and capitalize on techniques that Chairman Bill Bernbach developed to plug a more famous low-priced product. D.D.B. hopes to establish Snark as "the Volkswagen of the sea." The agency also owns a 20% interest in Georg Jensen, an elegant Manhattan houseware and silver store; last year D.D.B. agreed to buy a small ice cream producer, Frose-Mar Corp., but the deal later fell through. "We will continue to diversify," says Senior Vice President James Madden, who has examined 300 potential acquisitions during the past six months...
...Georg Walterspiel, co-owner of Munich's famed old Vier Jahreszeiten, predicts that new U.S. hotels will create "murderous competition in the top class." To meet the American competition, five foreign airlines-BOAC, British European Airways, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Swissair-have teamed up with the London investment banking house of S.G. Warburg and four Eu~-ropean banks to form European Hotel Corp. The combine plans $50 million worth of hotels for the neglected low-price end of the market in London, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich. The American challenge last month prompted a merger by two of Britain...