Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEASTLY BEATITUDES OF BALTHAZAR B, by J. P. Donleavy. Fumbling seductions and moneyed monkeyshines fill Donleavy's tall tale of a rich and dreamy young man in Paris, Dublin and London...
...orchestra played on. Yet even without old Fred, Ginger Rogers, 57, landed in Southampton just as a superstar should-still looking beautiful in a fur-hooded ensemble, waving and blowing kisses to scores of worshipful fans while a 55-piece band blasted out greetings. Ginger was en route to London for a year's run in Mame. When someone mentioned her $600,000 contract to play Auntie, she sounded as if she already had the part down pat. "My attitude is somewhat callous to the sound of large amounts...
Million-Dollar Fee. Though Meyer has a formal title only at Lazard Freres in New York, he also guides two other loosely linked Lazard banking houses in London and Paris. A onetime Paris stockbroker who became one of Lazard's most influential partners, Meyer fled to New York when Hitler invaded France in 1940. In the years since, he has helped negotiate some of Wall Street's biggest deals, including the 1966 McDonnell-Douglas merger, for which his firm's fee was $1,000,000. Besides serving as investment banker to such companies as ITT and Owens...
...international-investment fund for the Pacific is being formed by N. M. Rothschild & Sons, the London branch of the 200-year-old banking family. As partners, the Rothschilds will have the biggest brokerage houses in the U.S. and Japan, Merrill Lynch and Nomura Securities Co. Other partners may join the syndicate. The fund will begin operation early in 1969, if, as expected, the government approves. It will be run by the Rothschilds in the pattern of other syndicates that they have formed in Europe. They will buy stock in promising companies in Australia and other Pacific countries but chiefly...
...David M. Kennedy, Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury, refused to make the ritual pledge that the U.S. will maintain the official price of gold at $35 per ounce. "I want to keep every option open," he said. Next day, the free market price of gold jumped in London to a six-month high of $41.82, and Nixon Press Aide Ron Ziegler tried to quiet the uncertainty by declaring: "We do not anticipate any change in the price of gold...