Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fair displays. U.S. businessmen see little value in exhibiting in, say, Indonesia, which suffers from a lack of foreign exchange and a bewilderment of trade controls. Said one expert: "A foreigner owning a factory built around American equipment isn't anxious to install Russian equipment, because the Russians haven't yet proven themselves on performance or maintenance like the Americans have...
...Calvin B. Marshall (Paul Douglas), an American who is the London vice president of a big airline, buys an island off the Scottish coast, and renovates the castle as an anniversary surprise for his wife-they haven't been getting along, and he thinks that, well, maybe what they both need is a castle. The difficulty is, shipping is scarce in the Hebrides, and nobody can be found to cart the last ?4,000 worth of plumbing to the island in time for the great day. Nobody, that is, but Captain MacTaggert (Alex Mackenzie) of the puffer Maggie...
Divorced. By Gloria de Haven, 28, Hollywood musicomedy singer (Down Among the Sheltering Palms): Manhattan Real Estate Broker Martin S. Kimmel, 38, her second husband (first: Cinemactor John Payne); after fourteen months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...
Toil & Trouble. In Manhattan, Author Meets the Critics-minus one critic-came on the air for a discussion of William Faulkner's A Fable. Author Frank (Five Gentlemen of Japan) Gibney arrived ten minutes late, breathing hard and blaming the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Gibney's first comment was that he thought most readers would have difficulty understanding A Fable. In reply, Critic Irving Howe took a surprising potshot at his own publisher. Random House President Bennett Cerf, who also doubles as a humorist and a panelist on What's My Line? Noting that Publisher...