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...prefers to describe last month's management changes as a "fine-tuning" rather than a "shake-up." But whatever term the scion of sedans wants to use, Bill Ford effectively booted the two Brits fighting over who gets to ride shotgun. Nick Scheele, 60, is relinquishing his role as COO and getting kicked upstairs as company president, while David Thursfield, 58, head of international operations and global purchasing, is simply getting kicked to the curb, with his retirement effective May 1. Meanwhile, Jim Padilla, 57, the Detroit native in charge of the company's Americas division, is taking the role...
...Girl Crazy, is a typical romantic comedy of the hey-gang-let’s-put-on-a-show genre. Although it was written in 1992, the musical goes out of its way to be an old-fashioned conventional lovefest. The plot concerns Bobby Child, a New York banking scion who just wants to dance. Sent by his mother to Dead Rock, Nev. to foreclose on a theater, he falls in love with both the building and the owner’s daughter, Polly, who will have nothing to do with him as soon as she discovers...
Lucy Bradshaw = Sofia Coppola Sims scion Tinseltown tyro...
...house too!” I cried. Like me, the judge was one of the Wedding Mockers—people who play games like Spot the Reason, in which players try to find the reason the couple is listed, whether it be a connection to a corporate scion, a famous author or a Sulzberger. (The last group are shoo...
...record as evidence of the Commander in Chief's military background and skill: he did well on an officer-qualification test, won praise from fellow pilots for his flying prowess and received an honorable discharge. Opponents see it as a laundry list of how a well-connected Texas scion pulled strings to avoid going to Vietnam, then failed to complete the scant service he signed up for--and now sends tens of thousands of U.S. troops to a war that has lost some of its rationale...