Word: westmorlands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seibu Department Stores Ltd., which brings the Western fine arts auction market into retail stores and enables Japanese buyers to place bids for, say, an over-the-counter Constable. When Wilson retires as Sotheby's chairman in February, he will be succeeded by his cousin, the Earl of Westmorland, who is an equally innovative businessman. "I am sure," says Westmorland, "the auction game is going to grow more and more popular...
...Tony Westmorland, 61, and his wife Doris, 60, had planned to sell the supermarket and liquor store that, along with some rental properties, netted him $40,000 a year on Chicago's South Side and retire to Hawaii. Last year, however, they vacationed in the South and were pleasantly surprised by the friendliness of the people, the lower cost of living and the availability of good housing. Says Westmorland, who was raised in Atlanta: "I fell in love with it all over again." Adds his wife, who had not visited the South since she left Texarkana, Texas...
...Westmorland has abandoned all thought of retiring. He is negotiating the lease for a liquor store in a Decatur shopping mall. Says he: "I wondered if they'd be reluctant about doing business with a black man." But the rental agent "talked to me like any other businessman. The guy was beautiful. He highly respected me. It seemed he went out of his way to make it easy...
...Cutting in on other people's dancing partners is an old, usually honored American custom. Not so in Britain, as Lord Snowdon, husband to Princess Margaret, unwittingly proved at a party thrown by Canned Food King HJ. Heinz II. Seeing the alluring 42-year-old Countess of Westmorland dancing with Peter Cazalet, a trainer of the royal horses, Snowdon tried to cut in. Snapped Cazalet: "This is not America." The rejected Snowdon tossed a glass of white wine on Cazalet; for good measure, Snowdon later showered him again, this time with red wine. Afterward, Snowdon maintained silence about...
...members. Bing Crosby has been a frequent guest. But at White's, the 277-year-old London gentlemen's club, evidently enough show biz is enough. After Frank Sinatra was shown around the hallowed premises by Fairbanks and a party including the Earls of Perth and Westmorland, one old Tory sniffed: "Doug was a silly old fool to have done that. Bing Crosby, yes. But this is a different matter...