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Wastepaper Figures. "Strange," wrote Beckmann in his diary in 1947, "that in every city I always hear the lions roar." He loved the street-scene turmoil and crammed his major canvases with crowds of jostling, uncongenial characters. Son of a Leipzig flour merchant, Beckmann was already a success at the age of 30 when World War I broke out. To avoid killing, he volunteered for the medical corps. Still, the constant exposure to slaughter, which he often drew, punctured his optimism so destructively that 30 years later he wondered if war had wounded his soul...
...Canadianized version of the British merchant marine flag, the Red Ensign was first flown by Canadian merchant vessels in 1892, became Canada's "unofficial" flag...
...Parliamentary Secretary of the newly formed Ministry of Technology, "this country respects engineers least." Result: a brain drain that has robbed Britain in recent years of some of its best scientific talent. British managers also tend to look down their noses at the self-made man and the aggressive merchant. "A tremendous amount of work has to be done," in the opinion of Sir George Briggs, deputy chairman of Hawker Siddeley Industries, "to root out the prejudice that trade...
...slipping away from her mother's umbrella shop to meet an ardent garage mechanic, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo). Guy goes off to the war in Algeria, leaving Genevieve pregnant. When she doesn't hear from him, she lets her mother marry her off to a sober young jewel merchant. One Christmas time years later, the lovers meet again briefly and find themselves virtual strangers. Genevieve is now a chic, prosperous Parisienne. Guy has acquired a pleasant wife, a son, and an Esso station he can call...
Jargon & Tradition. Many of today's City leaders descend from the merchant bankers who bankrolled Britain's colonial expansion and cleared whole continents in the days when sterling was supreme. The most influential among them is the scion of a 200-year-old banking family: George R. S. Baring, 46, third Earl of Cromer, who, as the outspoken and energetic Governor of the Bank of England, was the chief British architect of last fortnight's $3 billion rescue of the pound. At the top of the private banks are scores of modern-day Rothschilds, Schroders, Brandts, Hambros...