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...great-great-great-great-grandfather came from the Isle of Wight only ten years after the Mayflower's famous landing at Plymouth Rock and fathered a male line of descendants of which every one was a clergyman or a lawyer except Bucky's father, who became a merchant importer. But his most
Died. Ahmed Abboud Pasha, 74, Egypt's richest businessman in the days before Nasser's "Arab socialism," a minor merchant's son who started out as a civil engineer but soon decided that there were more piasters in trade, in the 1940s and '50s piled up a $100 million empire in chemicals, paper, shipping, sugar and cotton, only to have it all nationalized by Nasser in 1961; of heart and kidney ailments; in London...
...Sugar Merchant Henry Tate had the devil's own time getting the nation to accept his costly gift in 1890. A cruel tradition makes the Tate turn over any painting that can be defined as an old master to the National Gallery. For years, the public virtually ignored the Tate; during the 1930s the guards' first chore mornings was spinning the turnstile to build up fictitious attendance. But in the past decade the Tate has pulled ahead fast, and now, under the direction of Sir John Rothenstein, it is the largest and liveliest art museum in the British...
...clerks to lure customers into trading up to a more expensive gift, or buying a yellow shirt to go with the yellow sweater they were given. Giving refunds in cash is avoided wherever possible; Houston stores have joined together in a pact against giving cash refunds unless, says one merchant, "a customer carries his protest to lying on the floor and kicking his feet." Since few customers have enough post-holiday energy left, they are usually content to settle for something else...
Eventually Stavros, toughened by violence and more than ever obsessed with his American dream, learns to be cruel. In the film's most successful sequence, he courts a prosperous rug merchant's plain, pure daughter (Linda Marsh), planning to appropriate her dowry to buy a steamer ticket. He is tempted by the family's kindness until his prospective father-in-law (Paul Mann) describes the future: "You'll be old and I'll be old, and we'll sit here and drink and eat and undo the tops of our trousers and take...