Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slur on my firm!" cried Herbert Hill. "We will get Mr. Wilson by the ears before long." It took more than a year, but Hill's Hardy Spicer, Ltd., car-parts manufacturing company in Birmingham, did at least get Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 49, by the tongue a bit. Wilson's counsel appeared in London's High Court of Justice to deliver a handsome apology from the Prime Minister after he was charged with "libeling and slandering" Hill during the 1964 general elections campaign by suggesting that the Hardy Spicer management had fomented...
...with the woolly Marxism of the university's Labor Club, helped found the more moderate Democratic Socialist Club. While still in his 20s he wrote a biography of his friend and political mentor Clement Attlee, has since penned three historical works, including a bestseller on Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. His latest: Victorian Scandal (see BOOKS), about the ruination of Liberal Sir Charles Dilke. "I regard writing as the only real work," Jenkins once said, and he does it well enough for the Economist to have once considered him for its editorship...
...harder getting a symphony to swing than getting a jazz ensemble to play Bach." At performance's end, the audience cried "Grazie, maestro!" and the string players tapped their bows on their instruments, a high compliment that the tradition-minded orchestra has paid to only two other conductors (Herbert von Karajan and Victor de Sabata) in the past 20 years...
These four-Vanderbilt's Alexander Heard, Emory's Sanford S. Atwood, Tulane's Herbert Longenecker and Duke's Douglas Knight-are all nationally oriented administrators who refuse to keep old Southern traditions at the cost of academic quality. Of the quartet, only Heard is from the South, showing how trustees of their schools reached out to seek the best available men anywhere. Yet Savannah-born Alex Heard, 48, is even more outspokenly critical of Southern educational provincialism than the three Northerners. "We in the South cannot duck behind the thought that if we show...
Last year he joined with two other millionaire land investors, Bernard Selwyn and Herbert Edwards, both 42, to form Rammco. The company's aim: to make money by letting other investors in on the land boom. The partners buy up huge plots in Southern California, then sell chunks to investors and manage the land for them until its value rises and the owners sell out to other investors. Rammco earns its profit by charging a 10% commission on each transaction, now manages $50 million worth of land...