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...Wayward Boy-King. However such opinions may strike the West, they convince Sihanouk's own people. Of all the rulers of Southeast Asia, he is probably the most popular inside his own country, partly because he has an aura both of divine kingship and grass-roots politics. Sihanouk succeeded to the ancient Khmer throne in 1941 at 19, when the French were still firmly in control of Cambodia. Although his name, from the Sanskrit, means "lionhearted," he was a pampered prince, fussed over by a covey of nannies; not long ago, to illustrate the importance of milk...
...Liebling, 59, freewheeling journalist and longtime New Yorker contributor, who turned his sometimes loving, often acid pen to food (no one could pack away more), prizefights (he once fancied himself a not-quite Hemingway-class boxer), World War II accounts of the North African campaign, countless articles on the Wayward Press, and one notable dissection of Chicago: The Second City, whose cry, Liebling insisted, had changed from "Lemme at him" to "Hold him offa me"; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933-62, by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. Until World War II contracts came through, wayward management and union pressures brought Ford Motor Co. perilously close to bankruptcy. Authors Nevins and Hill recount the story of this period and of the recovery that followed, led by Henry Ford II and such brilliant executives as Ernest R. Breech...
Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933-62, by Allan Nevins and Frank Ernest Hill. Until World War II contracts came through, wayward management and union pressures brought the Ford Motor Co. perilously close to bankruptcy. Authors Nevins and Hill recount the story of this period and of the recovery that followed, led by Henry Ford II, "the Whiz Kids," and such brilliant executives as Ernest R. Breech...
...with the celebrities and movie stars he has invited. There are other types about, too. The honored guests at the Portland, Ore., opening threw furniture into the swimming pool and made off with the portrait of Hilton that hangs in every Hilton lobby. At the New York opening, some wayward members of the press took their whisky by the bottle instead of the drink, someone painted a swastika on a Dong Kingman mural and the overzealous door guards tried to keep out Mayor Wagner. In Rotterdam all the lights went out while most of the guests were dressing...