Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Robin Douglas-Home, 27, London jazz piano player who turned adman to win the hand of Sweden's willowy Princess Margaretha but reverted to the piano after the Swedish royal family stalled and his father roared that the Swedes were belittling the British Empire; and Sandra Paul, 18, homegrown, high-paid model; in London...
...modern. Britain's biggest steel company is United Steel Companies Ltd., whose chairman, Sir Walter Benton Jones, 78, is the elder statesman of British steel. Says Sir Walter: "I think of nothing during the week but United Steel, and on weekends I think of my garden and my home...
...industry feels that foreign steel is a growing menace." Roger Blough has strong ideas about how that menace can be stopped. Says he: "A fundamental law of business is 'compete or die.' The only practical way to keep foreign-made products from overcrowding our markets at home is to compete in quality, price and service; and the only practical way to reach foreign markets successfully is to keep our costs-which means, primarily, our wage costs-competitive...
Birrell's New York lawyer has said he will advise Birrell to come home and fight the case. But convicting him will be no easy task because of the intricacy of his maneuvers. Said John Devaney, chief of the New York SEC's fraud division: "Birrell's strategy is well-nigh infallible...
Peter De Vries had a lunch date in Manhattan recently with visiting British Novelist Kingsley Amis. De Vries spared no effort to round up a third for lunch, his New Yorker colleague, E. B. ("Andy"') White. The anticipated lunatic-fringe benefit: De Vries would breeze home to Westport, Conn, and tell his wife: "I had lunch today with Amis and Andy...