Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Little List. And sure enough, Baritone Alistair Donkin ticked off an added starter in his roll of "society offenders who might well be underground, and who never would be missed." Spinning impishly about the stage in much the same gyrations that the great Martyn Green had learned from Sir Henry Lytton (inherited by Lytton from the original Ko-Ko, George Grossmith, who had learned his stage business from Director W.S. Gilbert himself in 1885), he doomed "that singular anomaly, the striking railway-ist-I know he 'II not be missed, he never will be missed." Londoners, plagued by labor...
...Carte Opera Company gave its last performance and disbanded. In the end there were not enough Savoyard loyalists to pay the costs of a 100-member company. The Arts Council of Great Britain, hard pressed to subsidize the National Theater and the Old Vic, rejected an appeal for funds. Sir. Charles Forte (created Lord Forte two months ago), of the Trusthouse Forte hotel chain, launched a fund drive to reform and modernize D'Oyly Carte, but it will be several months before anyone knows whether the necessary ?1 million can be found...
...ready to proceed with the cease-fire suggested by the Soviets two days earlier. It was our plan to begin implementing the Soviet proposal by asking Britain to introduce in the Security Council late Saturday afternoon, Oct. 13, a resolution calling for a cease-fire in place. That morning Sir Alec Douglas Home, the British Foreign Secretary, telephoned to say that Sadat would not accept anything less than an Israeli commitment to return to the 1967 frontiers. Our proposal would not fly unless Moscow was willing to pressure Sadat by cutting off his supplies; he doubted the Soviets were prepared...
...Sir Freddie Laker, the British businessman whose Laker Airways went bankrupt two weeks ago as a victim of the cut-rate fares it once pioneered, is not alone. U.S. airlines also have big problems stemming in part from a suicidal fare war that has been raging for months...
Meanwhile in London, Sir Freddie was down last week but certainly not yet out. A loyal British public had rallied behind him and donated some ?3 million ($5.5 million) to a Freddie Friendly Fund to help him launch another carrier. Laker and Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, managing director of Lonrho Ltd. and one of Britain's most talked-about businessmen, were considering joining forces in a new flying venture that could be airborne by April. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Christopher Ogden/Chicago and Bruce van Voorst/New York