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...worked with Svetlana on a BBC film about her life, called her return hazardous. She has taken "a very big chance" and will be "quite defenseless," he said. "I feel deeply sorry for her." Most shocked was Svetlana's former husband and Olga's father, U.S. Architect William Wesley Peters, 72, whom she married in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1970 and divorced in 1973. He is extremely worried about Olga's future. "Her mother was lonely and distraught. She may have left for the U.S.S.R. impulsively, or possibly under constraint," he said...
Behind his plain-wrapper exterior lies a poet at heart with a phenomenal memory for verse. Wesley Poulson, chairman of Coldwell Banker, says that he once engaged Telling in a duel to see who could remember more of William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis. First Poulson would deliver a line or two, and then Telling. Long after Poulison had given up, Telling was still reciting the 81 line poem. He should certainly know the poem by Edgar A. Guest that graced the cover of the 1934 fall-winter Sears catalog. The last stanza...
Michael Katz, a team of San Francisco business journalists who set out to find the most contented employees in the U.S. They have published their conclusions in a breezy new book for job hunters called The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America (Addison-Wesley...
There were disturbing reports that the U.S. and its NATO allies had been caught off-guard by the Soviet maneuvers. The Supreme Commander of NATO Atlantic forces, Admiral Wesley McDonald, said he had been "very impressed" by the size of the Soviet fleet, and called for an upgrading of Western defenses in the region. During a trip to Turkey for a NATO meeting, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger denied that the alliance had been unprepared for the Soviet maneuvers, although Defense Department Spokesman Michael Burch later conceded that "perhaps the size of the exercise was somewhat unexpected...
Napa Valley-based Artist Sebastian Titus and Partner Wesley Poole, who have made labels for some 50 wine makers, always sample the product before turning to the palette. Says Titus: "Consumers will buy a pretty label once, but if the wine isn't good, they won't buy it again." Moreover, the wine lover who used to be embarrassed by the rows of empty bottles in his house can now label himself an art collector...