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James Michael ("Jimmy") Goldsmith, 43, is the flamboyant, ardently Tory chairman of Britain's huge Cavenham food empire, third largest in Europe. Last month quite a few British eyebrows were raised when London's right-wing Daily Express reported that Harold Wilson had recommended Goldsmith for a peerage in the resignation honors list customarily submitted by Prime Ministers leaving office. Peerages, as well as lesser awards, are usually given to individuals who have rendered outstanding service either to the P.M. personally or to the country as a whole. But what possible public service...
...Goldsmith rendered to anyone other than the shareholders of Cavenham, Ltd.? Speculation intensified following press reports that the Political Honors Scrutiny Committee, which must approve political nominations, objected to three of Wilson's candidates...
Last week No. 10 Downing Street belatedly released Wilson's nominees. As it turned out, Goldsmith would not be awarded a peerage after all, but rather the lesser rank of knighthood, a more appropriate distinction for a businessman of Goldsmith's stature. British editorial writers and commentators gave Wilson's list of 42 nominees high marks for its surprise value and about a C-minus for taste and distinction. Among the recipients...
...entrepreneurs, Goldsmith is by far the best known, both for his aggressive business style and his uninhibited private life. Raised in France and educated in Eton, where he was a successful afterhours bookmaker, Goldsmith since 1965 has expanded Cavenham from a modest confectionery maker to a multinational with sales in 1975 of $3.1 billion. For years, Goldsmith has maintained a highly visible double life; he has a wife and two children in Paris, plus a mistress (Lady Annabel Birley, after whom London's upper-crusty discotheque and dining club "Annabel's" is named) and two more children...
...church of Santa Maria in Via Lata (see color pages). There are a number of pieces that, regardless of their function, are extremely beautiful as sculpture. One is an angel from the cathedral of Vetralla, carrying relics of St. Andrew. Made in the early 15th century by the Viterban goldsmith Pietro di Vitale, it has a severe columnar air that distantly suggests the figures of Piero della Francesca...