Word: banker
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Author Edith de Born, fiftyish, is herself Viennese, lives in Belgium as the wife of a French banker. She writes in a rather stiff English that never conveys the cozy, weary sloppiness of Viennese upper-class slang. And many cliches of her adopted language apparently still strike her as fresh; too often her characters "champ at the bit" or find troubles weighing on them "like a millstone." To Author de Born's credit, her characterization is not nearly so cliché-ridden as her language. The sad pleasures of between-wars Vienna, the long afternoons of penurious idleness...
Divorced. By Blanche Thebom, 40, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano: Richard Metz, 47, Wall Street banker; after nine years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...even more heavily on U.S. buying, the richness of Canadian resources ensures long-range prosperity. By 1970, one government commission estimated Canada should have a population of 21 million and a gross national product of $50 billion v. 1959's $34.5 billion. The "surprising '50s," pre dicts Banker Ashforth, "should be succeeded by the exciting...
Died. Pierre de Gaulle, 62, younger brother of French President Charles de Gaulle, a Paris Banker who won the Croix de guerre in World War I combat, was jailed by the Gestapo in 1943 for being a Resistance cell leader; helped his brother form the postwar R.P.F. (Rally of the French People), and became mayor of Paris (1947-51); after surgery; in Paris...
Died. W. (for William) Cameron Forbes, 89, Boston banker and Ralph Waldo Emerson's grandson who served (1909-13) as a popular Governor General of the Philippine Islands where he promoted industrialization and introduced polo; in Boston...