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...moment are Malcolm Lowry, George Orwell, W.H. Auden, and, of course, Virginia Woolf. Occasionally a writer's private life is so juicy that even if he or she is not being prepared for deification, a biography of this sort will appear. A review of the contents of Harold Nicolson's Portrait of a Marriage can easily give the impression that it is just another of these misdirected books...
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...Nicolson was commissioned not only to end the two lines' steep financial dive, but also to merge them into one carrier, British Airways. A newcomer to airlines, he was at first greeted with distrust. Workers, fearing mass layoffs after the merger, even threatened not to paint new insignia on the planes. So Nicolson, 51, came in like a lamb. He set up no fewer than 20 worker-management committees to determine everything from the merged line's colors to the future of its cargo operations. By combining separate operations-like the carriers' computer systems...