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...Died. Rupert C. Thompson Jr., 64, retired chairman of Textron Inc. and philosopher of conglomerate organization; of cancer; in Providence. In 1956, Thompson left a successful banking career, joined his friend Royal Little at Textron, then a troubled textile manufacturer, and helped turn it into a widely diversified empire. Thompson instituted independent divisions modeled on the General Motors system, became chairman in 1960 and raised Textron's sales from $383,188,000 to $1.7 billion before he retired in 1969. Today Textron has 33 divisions that make products as varied as Bell helicopters, Talon zippers, Sheaffer pens and Gorham...
Conveniently. Ken Russell's current film of Lawrence's Women in Love solves the problem quite neatly. Thanks to Larry Kramer's screenplay, which follows quite closely the plot of the novel, and thanks to Alan Bates's amusing but rather lightweight portrayal of Rupert Birken, Lawrence's protagonist and spokesman, the film turns poor old D.H. into the adolescent's adolescent. (Incidentally, someone along the assembly line was indiscreet enough to have Bates/Birklen wear a beard cut exactly like Lawrence's own. They seem to be daring us to make the connection.) And since (cautionary baritone) this film...
Animated Sisters. In the shadow of the Great War, four Midlanders hurtle toward a collective destiny. School Inspector Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates) not only takes the author's part but is costumed and bearded to resemble him. His friend, Gerald Crich (Oliver Reed), is a mineowner who represents the century's death wish: mechanization. Their lovers are the animated Brangwen sisters, Ursula (Jennie Linden) and Gudrun (Glenda Jackson...
...latest novel, the most ambitious since A Severed Head, concerns two married couples-one heterosexual, one homosexual. Rupert and Hilda are toasting 20 years of guileless union; Axel and Simon, who is Rupert's younger brother, have just passed their third year of wary connubiality...
...hers, the mean, mysterious catalyst. This time it is a famous scientist named Julius King, who is a latter-day lago, if not the Devil himself. Arriving in London and finding his friends happy is too much for Julius. Playing on vanity, sowing distrust he labors suavely to link Rupert with Hilda's younger sister and Simon with himself. As the plot unravels, the book shifts from comedy to melodrama, to tragedy-a course few writers could control or sustain. Miss Murdoch nearly manages it, because her presence is so forcefully stamped on every event and every line...