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...strangely irrepressible and outwardly serene amid the tumbling of facades and the crash of reputations. Blossoming forth in ever more dazzling photographs, she became Britain's fastest-rising fallen woman. She was besieged by film and nightclub offers and incorporated herself as Christine Keeler, Ltd. She even landed, uncaptioned, on the cover of the austere Economist...
Died. .William Alfred Foyle, 78, founder in 1904 (with Brother Gilbert) of W. & G. Foyle, Ltd., world's largest bookstore with 4,000,000 volumes stashed in seven London buildings, a flamboyant cockney who once shocked bibliophiles by selling his wares at tuppence per pound, another time offered to buy the books Adolf Hitler was burning (no reply), and subsequently got his own revenge by using copies of Mein Kampf to protect his roofs during the blitz; of a stroke; in Essex, England...
...Pyramid. Though it is probably the world's oldest soft-drink firm, Britain's Schweppes Ltd. is a greater mix than most non-Britons realize...
...commodity market that is in better shape than ever is the esoteric and specialized worldwide market in postage stamps. In Manhattan last week, the costliest stamp in history was auctioned for $41,000 by Bernard Harmer, U.S. partner of London's H. R. Harmer Ltd., the world's leading stamp firm. It is a pale blue, unused 2? Hawaiian Missionary stamp-so called because such stamps were mostly used by Christian missionaries writing home in the mid-19th century-and it replaced the renowned British Guiana one-cent magenta ($32,900) as the world's most valuable...
...calculated risk that failed," says Lawrence Morey, the last British director of General Mills Ltd. General Mills, explained the Financial Times of London, had been "generally defeated by traditionalism." To begin with, Betty Crocker's products sold for more than established competitors (up to 36? v. 25?) in a market that has not grown since General Mills entered it. But the real trouble was that British housewives considered the use of Betty's complete mixes a slight of their housewifely duties, felt guilty about not even cracking an egg. They also clung to the dark suspicion that...