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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was in the '60s that his best work, with its inspired inconsequentiality, seemed to exert not only a period charm but charm, period. Five years ago, a new production of Hay Fever (1924) by Olivier's National Theater Company set off a flurry of revivals and re...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Noel Coward at 70 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Coward's greatest single gift has not been writing or composing, not acting or directing, but projecting a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise. He had it as a newcomer of 25, when he walked into a fashionable party where all but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Noel Coward at 70 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

The public personality that is built on this sense of style is Coward's one great creation, looming behind all his smaller ones and investing them with special effervescence. This is what John Osborne meant when he said that Coward "is his own invention and contribution to this century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Noel Coward at 70 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

Goodrich's profits have lagged behind those of its prime competitors. Last year the company earned only 3.9% on sales of $1.1 billion, compared with 6% for the industry's most profitable major operator, Firestone. After Northwest's takeover attempt, Keener, who was paid $240,000 last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Quiet Purge at Goodrich | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

In 1967, the Kemper Insurance Group outbid nine other companies for the policy to cover Indianapolis' 123 schools against fire, vandalism and other risks. The school board paid its $126,000 annual premium and had only one major claim-$101,000 for windstorm damage. Last week the board was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bad Risk in Schools | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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