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Died. Taube Coller Davis, seventyish, U.S. fashion oracle known for 35 years by her professional name of "Tobe"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Bubbly but ever so shrewd, Tobe gave advice through her syndicated columns in some 50 papers, her newsletters (printed on blue paper with breezy peach covers), her $1,000-a-day consultations, and her 150-girl Tobe-Coburn School for Fashion Careers. Her Manhattan town house was a rendezvous for mannequins and matrons, and her influence was such that in 1953 the French government made her a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
Though better known for its shrewd bankers and sharp traders, tiny Lebanon has the nearest thing to a major industrialist in the Arab world. He is Emile Bustani, 54, who, as chairman of Beirut's Contracting & Trading Co. (CAT), bosses the biggest of all Arab-owned industrial enterprises...
Most Turks agree that the country's shaky civilian rule depends on shrewd, wrinkled Premier Ismet Inonu, 78. Alone among professional politicians, he has the confidence of the nation's generals, who seized power in 1960 and who would not hesitate to take over again if Inonu's precarious civilian coalition collapsed. Last week a political crisis inside Inonu's own Republican People's Party almost forced the old man to quit, raising fresh fears of another military coup...
...Mother!" the wife gasps, "what shall I do?" Mother smiles that shrewd little smile the French always smile when they talk about sex, the one that means: I'm so glad you asked me that, because now I can show you how horribly knowing and worldly wise I am. "Get a lover," Mother says, "or better still, invent one-like I did. I sent myself flowers and got my girl friends to call me. If a man answers...
Some Greek industrialists shudder at this prospect, but not shrewd, cultivated Christopher Stratos, 38, the managing director of Athens' bustling Piraiki-Patraiki Cotton Manufacturing Co. By using things Greece has plenty of-cotton and cheap labor-Stratos has made his family-owned company a model for all of Greek industry. P.-P., which currently employs 3,900 workers at five modern mills, last year earned $1,000,000 on sales of $16 million. More important from a national point of view, the company's export sales to Western Europe are steadily climbing, so that...