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Ultimately, however, Alex Korda became a figure to be reckoned with there too, as a major stockholder in United Artists and, in the years after World War II, as a pioneer of international coproduction, with such distinguished directors as David Lean and Carol Reed. Korda's knighthood-obtained in part for secret services to the British during the war-did not hurt him socially on the West Coast either. They were used to tinny titles out there, but as Sam Goldwyn said, Korda's was ''100% kosher...
Burt, who received British knighthood for his work, died...
Last week No. 10 Downing Street belatedly released Wilson's nominees. As it turned out, Goldsmith would not be awarded a peerage after all, but rather the lesser rank of knighthood, a more appropriate distinction for a businessman of Goldsmith's stature. British editorial writers and commentators gave Wilson's list of 42 nominees high marks for its surprise value and about a C-minus for taste and distinction. Among the recipients...
...received from No. 10 Downing Street a letter offering him a trusteeship in London's prestigious Tate Gallery. So thrilled, he later remembered, that he neglected to open a second letter from the same address. It contained a polite inquiry as to whether Attenborough would accept a British knighthood. "It has not fully sunk in yet," said Attenborough happily last week after learning that he was among 32 Britons thus honored...
...covered with honors. During his 16-year reign (1922-38) at the BBC, he had built it into one of Britain's most revered institutions; in return, the towering (6 ft. 6 in.), beetle-browed son of a Presbyterian minister had been rewarded with knighthood, a barony, the Order of the Thistle and a public reputation as one of the great moral pillars of the realm...