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...model for "Manderley," the fantastic estate in Rebecca, Novelist Daphne du Maurier chose a place she had loved ever since she was a child. It was "Men-abilly"-a sprawling, gray stone mansion standing on some 400 acres on the coast of Cornwall. Miss du Maurier finally rented it in 1943, five years after writing Rebecca, and there she has lived among the rhododendrons and cherry trees. Unfortunately, the owner would never sell "Menabilly" to the lady who immortalized it, and now, she says, "his second cousin wants to move in." So after 26 years, the novelist...
...invention to be more effective in eliminating tar and nicotine than the cellulose acetate filters used on the most widely smoked filter cigarettes. Not only are some U.S. cigarette makers continuing to express interest in the filter, but last week both Imperial Tobacco Co. of Canada Ltd. (du Maurier and Player's), and Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., negotiated licenses to use the filter. The companies are two of the biggest in Canada, and they could conceivably be marketing Strickman-filtered cigarettes as early as next fall...
...been had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier...
...Alpine KMF 26.4 1.52 Kool KMF 26.6 1.88 Chesterfield R 27.0 1.18 Oasis Lucky Strike R KMF 27.1 27.1 1.42 1.38 Lucky Chesterfield Strike KF KF 27.6 27.3 1.42 1.72 Raleigh KF 27.8 1.98 Old Philip Gold Morris R R 29.7 28.8 1.63 1.37 Belair KMF 29.7 2.11 du Maurier KF 30.0 1.96 Players R 31.0 1.67 Camel R 31.3 1.69 York K 32.4 1.69 Camel KF 32.4 1.77 Pall Mall K 33.0 1.75 Half & Half KF 33.6 1.99 Domino K 34.1 1.48 Old Gold K 34.8 1.89 Masterpiece KF 35.9 2.23 Kool RM 36.3 2.21 Fatima...
Died. Sir Victor Gollancz, 73, British publisher and idealist of the left, founder in 1928 of London's immensely successful Victor Gollancz Ltd. (among his authors: Daphne du Maurier, George Orwell, John le Carré, Kingsley Amis), who was born into an orthodox Jewish family, but chose instead to live out what he regarded as "the Christian ethic," becoming an ardent socialist and Labor Party pamphleteer in his politics and a humanitarian in all else, espousing such diverse causes as the abolition of capital punishment, postwar relief for Germany, aid for Arab refugees of the Arab-Israeli...