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...casually elegant buffet lunches and small dinner parties-seldom for more than 24-at which the guest list might include the Windsors, Henry Ford II and Salvador Dali, Italy's Donna Marella Agnelli and Truman Capote. Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the Maharajah of Jaipur, Noel Coward and Senator Jacob Javits...
...Super-Swindler Ivar Krueger, who got control of the company in the late 1920s, sold off his interest in 1931 to Ericsson's archrival, the U.S.'s International Telephone & Telegraph Co. This evoked patriotic outcries in Sweden and led to the intervention of the brothers Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg, who between them head the boards of 24 Swedish companies with combined sales of $1.6 billion. Aided by a law that prohibits foreign control of Swedish firms, Marcus Wallenberg, 62, stepped in as Ericsson's chairman and fended off I. T. & T. so successfully that the U.S. company...
...Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The author, writing with a skill that frequently gives his tale the force of legend, recasts the Biblical story of Jacob and Rachel in war-ravaged 17th century Poland...
...Jacob Lawrence...
...Slave, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The author, writing with a skill that frequently gives his tale the force of legend, recasts the Biblical story of Jacob and Rachel in war-ravaged 17th century Poland...