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...Premier in this uneasy coalition was youngish (44), handsome Gaston Eyskens, who as former Finance Minister had been the scarecrow of Belgian taxpayers. His tax collectors, to whom he had given virtually inquisitorial powers, had outraged Belgians, who are highly imaginative deduction hunters. A learned, conservative economist, Eyskens will push strict government economy, lower taxes, fewer state controls...
...well-to-do widows dine in respectable isolation without recourse to spirits. One of these was stately Mrs. Olive Henrietta Roberts Durand-Deacon, a widow of 69. She had few close friends at the hotel, but over a period of three years had struck up an acquaintance with a youngish (39) gentleman named John George Haigh, who was, he said, an inventor...
Loretta Young is a Park Avenue widow who finds herself temporarily broke. She gets a scholarship to Pointer College, where she joins her pretty daughter (Betty Lynn) in pursuit of higher education and a youngish English professor (Van Johnson). With the help of the "Kissing Oak" and other standard campus props, Mother gets her man, and Betty gets compensation in the form of a stripling...
...Lack of Bosses. Trim and youngish at 43, Editor Nichols makes $35,000 a year, and spends only seven months a year in his Manhattan office. The rest of the time he travels, on expense account, around the U.S. and Europe, picking up ideas. At home, on Park Avenue, he and his Czech-born wife Marie Thérèse, who speaks seven languages, entertain a babbling stream of foreign authors and artists, who are also tapped for ideas...
...bigwigs to its Troy (N.Y.) home to look at a new $1,000,000 research laboratory and two new processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed off a new president: youngish (41), ruddy Barry T. Leithead, up from vice president in charge of sales to replace Chesly Robert ("Bob") Palmer who, at 65, had decided to take life easier. (He will remain a director...