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...such tennant who bought the house
...executor of the estate of Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin), one of the world's richest, coldest, frailest and ditsiest women. Edwina had engaged the services of a swami, sect undetermined, to transfer her mind and soul at the moment of death into the healthy body of Terry (Victoria Tennant), the daughter of one of her servants. Then, darn the luck, the sacred urn containing Edwina's essence fell out of a window and onto Roger in the street below. The left side of his body and mind is still male, still Roger, and not a little vexed...
...author of Peter Pan and other whimsies, was thoroughly vexed at the noise above his apartment in Adelphi Terrace, London. At 3 a.m. he sent a note of protest to the disturbers. At 5 a.m. the noise and the party ceased. The party was given by two newlyweds, David Tennant (son of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon) and Mrs. Tennant (nee Hermione Baddeley, actress). They wore orange sleeping suits of silk; the guests, too, came in blazing pajamas; many brought bottles of hair restorers, ink, gasoline, Thames water. Champagne was not lacking. After the party, Mrs. Tennant said: "Bottle and pajama...
Usually such intelligence gathering is done legally, if deviously, by searching trade journals or eavesdropping on conversations in airport waiting rooms. Other times it is more blatant. Tennant, a maker of floor-maintenance equipment, was awarded $500,000 in damages last April from a competitor, Advance Machine. Two managers of the rival firm admitted sifting through trash containers outside Tennant's Oakland, Calif., office for sales leads. General Motors transplanted a grove of 30-ft. evergreens to block a favored vantage point of photographers trying to shoot long-range pictures of new models at its Milford, Mich., test track...
...restaurant sales annually and a loss of 63,000 jobs. Said Harry Freeman, senior vice president of American Express: "This is a threat to the entire travel and entertainment industry." In Philadelphia, the International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus protested the measure at its annual meeting. Don Tennant, president of his own advertising agency in Chicago, went further and criticized President Reagan, even though the White House has not taken a position on the issue. Said Tennant: "Reagan is a traitor to his class...