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...duchess are automatically the guests of honor at any party they attend, as though he were still king. It is a circle of friends that dates back to the '20s, and each year its number is shrunk by death. Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook are gone, and so are Viscount Monckton, who negotiated the terms of Edward's abdication, and New York Central Board Chairman Robert Young, the invariable Florida host of the duke and duchess...
...Franz Josef's gold-plated service. Recently, the White House gratefully accepted Mrs. Post's gift of some of her extra tablecloths. The pleasures are somewhat simpler at Topridge, mountaintop summer hideaway near Saranac Lake, N.Y. Guests are flown in aboard Mrs. Post's 16 passenger Viscount, the Merriweather, then transported by limousine, launch and canopied cable car to her rustic aerie. The living room is furnished with stuffed bears, a cigar-store Indian, beaded rugs, totems, the war bonnets of Sitting Bull and Geronimo-all of which takes two servants four hours to dust. Each guest...
...fish don't often pass," explained Britain's Viscount Bearsted, "and you grab them when you can." Last week Lord Bearsted hooked a notably big one-to become his own successor as chairman of Hill, Samuel & Co., Ltd., the largest of London's merchant banks in terms of capital, securities underwriting and profits. His prize catch was Baron Sherfield, 62, the former Sir Roger Makins, ex-barrister, able economist, gentleman-farmer, career diplomat and onetime (1953-56) Ambassador...
...house of Samuel traced its wealth and station back to Viscount Bearsted's grandfather, the first Lord Bearsted, who founded the British half of Royal Dutch Shell. A conservative partnership, Samuel relied heavily on its money to make money, stuck to gilt-edged investments. Philip Hill, whose directors held their salaried jobs by right of talent alone, was brash, inventive and daring. With Philip Hill's top man, a rugged ex-lieutenant colonel of the Welsh Guards named Kenneth Alexander Keith, 49, as deputy chairman and chief executive of the com bine, the Hill team pushed ahead with...
...salute boomed out, British Governor General Sir Glyn Jones waved from the doorway of the Malawi Airways Viscount. A moment later he disappeared inside, and the plane soared northward toward Britain. All alone in the middle of a red carpet stood Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda, waving his fly whisk after the plane. It was a last fond farewell between the two men who had worked together to prepare Malawi for independence in 1964 and for last week's ceremonies, which established Malawi as a republic and Banda as its first President...