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Consciously Unorthodox. The idea of parking lots would have shocked earlier directors of the 125-year-old bank, which has been headed by the Hambro family since it was founded six generations ago by a Danish immigrant. But parking lots are exactly the kind of enterprise sought by forward-looking Executive Chairman J. H. ("Jack") Hambro, 59, who believes that the times have passed when merchant bankers could concentrate on regal requirements. He has turned Hambros to bigger profits from a multitude of smaller ventures. "We are consciously unorthodox," says he. "Anything that concerns money we attempt to cater...
Profit will lure Hambros' seven partners almost anywhere. The bank was the first to help continental diamond cutters fleeing Nazism; from this risk it built a hefty business in London's diamond center. Hambros also runs 45 investment funds, and its Bishopsgate Property Investment Co. is the world's biggest fund dealing in real estate shares. In the U.S., Hambros has fared unevenly. "We lost our pants," admits Jack Hambro of a 1950 attempt to export more kippers and British honey. But in another project in which Hambros increased the exports of British cars, "we recovered...
VICTOR BORGE AT CARNEGIE HALL (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Accompanying the pianistic capers of Victor Borge are Tenor Sergio Franchi and Pianist Leonid Hambro...
Died. Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro, 65, chairman of London's Hambros Bank Ltd., largest commercial bank in Europe, organizer of a 1941 parachute raid on laboratories carrying out Nazi nuclear experiments in Norway, wartime courier of secrets between British and American atomic scientists developing the atom bomb, and head of British underground operations in occupied Europe, for which he was knighted; following a hemorrhage; in London...
Victor Borge Special (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). A special program hails the 20th anniversary of the Danish funnyman's discovery of America. Hermione Gingold (with her cello) and Concert Pianist Leonid Hambro are guests...