Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baker told him about Magic. Thompson proposed a deal, and borrowed $110,000 from the First National Bank in Dallas to buy the company's stock. Bobby, said Thompson, did not cosign the loan, but he was to share equally in the profits or losses. Again the stock rose, and Baker cleared $21,000-without ever having invested a cent of his own money. Incredulous, the Senators wanted to know why Bobby had not been obliged to sign the note. "I just borrowed the money and had a gentleman's agreement with Bobby," said Thompson. "That...
Back to Paris. In 1932 Couve married Jacqueline Schweisguth, the slim, brunette daughter of an Alsatian Protestant family related to the oil-rich Schlimbergers of Texas. Jacqueline's father was also an inspector of finances, but Couve protests it was "just a coincidence." Couve rose rapidly to become head of the external finance division of his ministry, but in 1943 he fled Vichy France and eventually joined De Gaulle in Algeria, where he became, in effect, the finance minister of the Free French. After serving on the Allied Consultative Council for Italy with Britian's Harold Macmillan...
...ability to express himself with elegance and precision is highly prized at the Quai. Novelist Remain Gary and Playwright Jean Giraudoux were foreign service officers; Poet St. John Perse (actually Alexis Leger) rose to the No. 2 post at the Quai; and Stendhal wrote The Charterhouse of Parma while in the diplomatic corps. Richelieu once effortlessly composed a 500-line insert for Corneille's verse drama, Le Cid, to replace a passage of the author's that Richelieu thought in bad taste...
...never was very robust, and now, at 64, he is growing noticeably pale and frail. But tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Showman Billy Rose is still the oldtime dynamite. Traveling to Jerusalem for the seventh time in three years, he was overseeing construction of his greatest philanthropical production: a $500,000 garden to display his $1,000,000 collection of statuary as part of Israel's Bezalel National Museum. "The Guggenheim is nothing compared to what my museum is going to be," boasted Billy. And why was he giving away his collection? "After I'm gone...
...France, 20% in West Germany. Consumer prices are up as much as 19%. Increasing imports and higher-priced exports have turned a $3.5 billion favorable trade balance into what may be a $1 billion deficit this year, and public spending, instead of staying low to counterbalance rising costs, itself rose 11% last year. Warned Marjolin, in a plea for spending hold-downs and coordination: "We cannot live in a permanent state of overheating...