Word: loudon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Whiting's The Devils skillfully transforms Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudon, a narrative chocked with explication, into an excellent drama. However, Michael Cacoyannis, the director, fails to realize that The Devils, although camouflaged as an historical play, stands firmly in the abstract and psychological tradition of modern drama...
...year history to become one of the seven managing directors who run the firm; in fact, he is the first of any nationality other than British or Dutch. He will fill a vacancy to be created by the retirement on July 1 of Senior Managing Director John H. Loudon (TIME cover, May 9, 1960). The top job, however, will remain in traditional hands: succeeding Loudon, 59, will be another Dutch oilman, Managing Director Luitzen Brouwer, 54. Spaght will in herit one of Loudon's titles: chairman of U.S. Shell. To take over the American firm as Spaght...
...sales to the Common Market) that last week the question of who owns the gas caused a formal debate in the Dutch Parliament, and was the subject of hot discussion in the German Bundestag. "It is like cutting up a plum pudding," explains Royal Dutch Petroleum President John H. Loudon. "Everyone wants the piece with the sixpence...
...Laughs. Well he might have. Baker had long since begun to maneuver outside the Senate as well as in the cloakrooms. For one thing, he had acquired Carole Tyler as his secretary. Back home in Tennessee, she had won a "Miss Loudon County" award, and she was a natural beauty-pageant type -35-26-35. Daughter of a Lenoir City dry-cleaning plant operator, Carole arrived in Washington in 1959, three years later was Baker's private secretary and confidante. As the former she received $8,000 a year, as the latter a lot of laughs and good times...
Carole. One subject of considerable curiosity was Carole Tyler, 24, a shapely (5 ft. 6 in., 35-26-35) Tennessee girl who won the title of "Miss Loudon County" before she turned up in Washington in 1959. Three years later she was Baker's private secretary at $8,000 a year. Chain-smoking, martini-drinking, party-loving Carole also became a favorite in Baker's high-flying circle of acquaintances...