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...more likely it was the billows of lofty praise that kept the Princess of Wales blushingly silent in Glasgow last week. Diana was there to accept an honorary fellowship from the city's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. "For five centuries the perceptive heads of the Spencer family have married women of surpassing beauty, and the daughters they begat relegated Cleopatra to eclipse," gushed Professor Stanley Alstead during his presentation speech. After the ceremony, an admiring young Glaswegian, appropriately named Edward Romeo, begged permission to "kiss your hand, Ma'am." His passion released, he murmured glassy-eyed...
Alfred W.H. Spencer Strasbourg, France
...salary, and so profits for recruiters are also high. Search firms earned some $1.2 billion in fees last year, or about 20% more than in 1982. Their total earnings could climb to $1.5 billion in 1984. Says Robert Slater, managing director of U.S. operations for New York City-based Spencer Stuart & Associates: "This is the most significant increase in business that I can recall...
...Mann, author of the social documentary play Still Life, has shaped the trial transcript and other relevant comments into antiphonal form: the lament of a hard-nosed cop will be answered by a raucous drag queen; the surreal anguish of Dan White (incarnated with creepy brilliance by John Spencer) will be followed by some wildly comic testimony that might have come from Carol Burnett's blooper barrel. Execution of Justice, directed by Oskar Eustis and Anthony Taccone, is a major work that seems to stand outside the perimeters of most Humana Festival plays. Yet its concerns are the same...
...tapes." The Nixon footage was turned down by NBC News President Reuven Frank, who judged it to be "not sufficiently new," and by ABC News, which apparently objected to the fact that Nixon was interviewed by a public relations aide. Some newspaper editors also questioned the arrangement. But Editor Spencer Klaw of the Columbia Journalism Review said, "It is hard to see how this differs from the common practice of newspapers and magazines to run excerpts of books...