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...Francisco newspapers last week introduced "Miss Lizbeth Rotherwick of Telegraph Hill. Has Hester Bateman silver. Collects old Spode. Enjoys pullovers by Pringle. And now she has a special checking account at the Chartered Bank of London." The mythical miss sounds somewhat less than smashing, but the point of the ads was that she did not have to cross a continent and an ocean to open a checking account at Chartered: the London bank recently opened a San Francisco subsidiary. Aware that the U.S. money market can be a happy hunting ground, foreign banks are setting up branches...
...next year Douglas married Mercedes Hester Davidson, divorced wife of a former Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Mercedes had been his research assistant, even attended auto mechanics school to learn how to change tires and spark plugs on their faraway trips. But for all of that, something was amiss. Two weeks ago, Mercedes won an uncontested divorce on grounds of cruelty (TIME, Aug. 9). Five days later, Bill Douglas, 64, and Joan Martin, 23, were married; the following day, Mercedes married her third husband, Washington Lawyer Robert B. Eichholz...
...showings of cigarette-warning films in schools, and youngsters who quit find themselves in good company. Among adult quitters: LeRoy Collins, who almost lost his job as president of the National Association of Broadcasters when he expressed disapproval of cigarette ads pitched to youngsters, and President James M. Hester of New York University, who last week asked the press to discard old photos showing him puffing cigarettes, "since he has discontinued smoking...
...Carolyn Hester, 25, represents a triumph of personality over performance...
...voice is not pretty and the technique is sketchy, but Songstress Hester has looks and a gift for appearing as if she were delivering the Truth every time she steps up to a microphone. "Songs which connote your beliefs and your dislikes and the things you love," says she, ""are the songs that make up folk music. " Texas-born, Carolyn studied at the American Theater Wing before turning to folk singing, includes Spanish songs and Southern blues, sung flat-out in a mewing Texas twang that sounds just right for the likes of I will Fly Away: One bright...