Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like all magic, the attraction of the great city is, in the end, beyond analysis and beyond definition. Marshall McLuhan and the late Frank Lloyd Wright may have been right in arguing that the city should be replaced by smaller communities. But men, alas and thank God, are never strictly practical. Until people are known by numbers alone, the great city will continue to exist. F. Scott Fitzgerald was speaking of Manhattan, but he might just as well have been talking of London or Paris-or Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon or Justinian's Constantinople. Looking at it from afar...
Minimum Verbiage. "Actually, it all began at a dinner party I gave," says Mrs. Cooney. Among the guests at that February 1966 party was Lloyd Morrisett, then vice-president of the Carnegie Corporation. "Something clicked in Lloyd's mind," says Mrs. Cooney. "Television and preschoolers. Was I interested?" By November her report was ready: "Spend a lot of money on this," she recommended...
...Madame's late Lamented Mother is about a squabbling couple who believe mistakenly that the wife's mother has died. The husband, played by Lloyd Schwartz, is hilarious as he rips off a string of consoling euphemisms and "There There's" about poor dear sweet mama "passing on ." The play stiffened a little bit from being slapstick and almost too fast to handle intelligently-but everybody laughed a lot so who cares...
...difficulties would be for Lloyd's to become an ordinary insurance company and increase its income from outside investments. But members are averse to such change. They prize the clubby atmosphere of the high marble halls where the tie that binds is mostly old school. The membership, at last count, included four former cabinet members (Hogg, Maudling, Sandys and Thorneycroft), more than 50 M.P.s, mainly Tory, Tycoons Charles Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson, Lord Harlech, five dukes, eight marquesses, 39 earls, 90 knights and 113 baronets...
...hopes of meeting greater risks profitably, Lloyd's underwriters have increased their premiums and are aiming at leadership in new coverage. Underwriters have been meeting with executives from Pan Am, TWA and BOAC, which are seeking insurance for their new jumbo jets. What Lloyd's needs most is rich new members to cover its risks; its scouts are out scouring the golf courses and grouse shoots to get them. This year the governing committee accepted the first 16 underwriters from outside the Commonwealth. Next year the "governors" will bend tradition even more. For the first time...