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...Majesty had no objection to the government's view that ... daughters and sons should be treated in the same way," Lord Williams of Mostyn said in announcing the queen's decision to the House of Lords. To hear those words spoken in the mustiest hall of the British establishment would have given their lordships seizures a while back. But now her majesty is the very model of a modern European monarch -- she pays taxes, invites tourists into her home and dishes out knighthoods to rock stars. Her great-grandfather Edward VII, who would have lost the throne to his sister...
...conventional world. Its "bohemian" artists and its fusty gentry are furnished forth with stock-company props and costumes dragged from literature's dustiest attic, and Physician Cronin uses every cliche of this oft-told tale with the almost touching innocence of new discovery, right down to the mustiest of them all-the notion that a man cannot possibly be a genuine genius unless he starves in a garret...
...stepped able James J. (for John) Nance, 53, the automaker who pulled Packard out of the rut two years ago. Coming to Packard from General Electric's Hotpoint division (TIME, May 19, 1952), Nance found a company suffering from old age. Packard's plants were among the mustiest and least efficient in the industry; its sales organization was without drive or direction; its executives were aging and set in their ways. The company made money, but largely because of defense production and the happy fact that 1952 was still a seller's market for automen...
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