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...left the British army in July 1945 and went to work for Arnold Toynbee at the Foreign Office research department. Gladwyn Jebb, now Lord Gladwyn, the Acting Secretary-General, was looking for a private secretary. Toynbee suggested...
PERHAPS everyone's favorite Gilbert and Sullivan musical, The Mikado is about a young man who is so in love with a woman that he almost loses his head over her--to the blade of the Lord High Executioner...
...activity seems designed to distract and confuse. In seconds, he can switch from a jaunty Brit to a ruthless schoolyard bully and back again. He is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Yet despite the colossal Mont Blanc gold pen he wields | like a fat cigar, the enormously expensive Lord & Stewart suit, the butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell is constantly ordering, pushing, scolding and hectoring, much like...
...When the post-glasnost Graham preached last June at Orthodox and Baptist churches in Kiev, the authorities allowed outdoor loudspeakers for the overflow crowds, numbering in the thousands. During the Soviet adventures, he added admiration for the Eastern Orthodox to his longtime friendliness toward Roman Catholics. "I find the Lord's people among all these groups," remarks Graham, whose toleration infuriates Fundamentalists...
...buyout. Said he: "For the vast majority of Kraft workers, this won't have any impact at all." The Philip Morris coup was an unusually smooth resolution. Another KKR fight fizzled last week when the Macmillan publishing firm accepted a $2.5 billion offer from British financier and press lord Robert Maxwell. In Georgia, Joseph Lanier, chairman of West Point Pepperell, which makes Arrow shirts and Martex towels, was determined to beat back a bid for his company from Chicago investor William Farley, whose company makes Fruit of the Loom underwear. Said Lanier: "We intend to whip him, and are going...