Word: henry
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...places where a bright woman with ideas, who is content to wear a costume ring instead of a wedding band, can rise to rule the executive suite. Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor until her death at 61 in 1959, was the archetype of the breed. At elegant Henri Bendel, Geraldine Stutz became president at 33, has successfully given her store an aura of yé-yé. Last week able, low-keyed Mildred Custin, 58, took over as president of twelve Bonwit Teller stores that stretch from Fifth Avenue headquarters south to Palm Beach and west to Oakbrook...
This dedication did not escape Maxey Jarman, the Nashville corporate builder whose giant Genesco Inc. (annual sales: $589 million) owns Bonwit's and 63 other apparel companies. Jarman likes to have women executives around: he picked Jerry Stutz for Henri Bendel, also a Genesco subsidiary, and his House of Fragrance perfume and cosmetic company is headed by President Helen Van Slyke. "Women who are interested in a career and have a feminine viewpoint," says Jarman, "usually have intuitiveness as well as good promotion and advertising sense." Casting around for a new boss to replace resigning William L. Smith, Jarman...
Just before flying back home from a three-week European tour, Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe reluctantly held still for conferences in Brussels with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II. Embarrassed by the concerted howling of Arab and African leftists against the U.S.-Belgian paradrop on Stanleyville, Spaak and MacArthur pressured Tshombe to improve his reputation in Africa. They proposed that Tshombe: 1) "broaden" his Cabinet to include ministers, such as former Premier Cyrille Adoula, who might prove more acceptable to the African nationalists; 2) grant an amnesty to all rebel prisoners unstained...
Painfully Close. That was too much for Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, one of the U.N.'s founding fathers. With quiet force, he told the Council that such talk was "painfully close to that type of racist feeling which has been so heatedly denounced" by the Africans themselves. "There is no such thing as a guilty race," said Spaak. "There have only been misguided men and contemptible men. Hitler was a contemptible man, and I regret to say Gbenye is a contemptible...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 11--Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak defended the rescue of white hostages in the Congo as a last recourse undertaken after Congo rebels threatened to cook them alive...