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...furniture, clothing and appliances, sells its merchandise both through the mails and at retail outlets, and counts one British family in every four among its customers. Gussie's shares, now worth 450 times what they were when Sir Isaac joined the company, are among the bluest chips on the London Stock Exchange. Last year, the company had pretax earnings of $77 million on sales of $700 million, and so far this year profits...
...working with stars in our eyes." twinkles McDonnell. Besides their space research, his scientists are busy digging into solid-state physics, aerodynamic heating and data processing. And for all his long lead in the space race, Old Pilot McDonnell is betting his bluest chips on planes, which still account for two-thirds of his sales. Says he: "There will be manned aircraft so long as there's air, just as there will be manned spacecraft so long as there's space...
...profits of $14.2 million on sales of $136.5 million. This year's racing successes have obliged Honda to increase production to 85,000 machines a month, boosted the company's stock from 80? to 93½? a share since May. (On the Tokyo Exchange even the bluest of blue chips sell for under $5.) To handle its newly booming export market-foreign orders for the first half of this year have already outstripped 1960's 22,100 orders from abroad-Honda has recently opened sales branches in the U.S. and West Germany...
...Britain's bluest-blooded peers, the polo-playing Marquess of Blandford, 33, son and heir of the Duke of Marlborough, sued his wife Susan, mother of his three children (one died), for divorce after eight years of marriage, Blandford, whose family motto is "Faithful Though Unfortunate," charged that Susan, daughter of a wealthy bookseller, had misbehaved with Alan Heber-Percy, 24, a distant kinsman of the marquess...
English portraits of the 18th century were once among the bluest of blue chips in the art market. In 1921, U.S. Railroad Heir Henry E. Huntington plunked down better than $500,000 for Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy, setting the record for English canvases. Hundreds of other rich Americans were supplying themselves with high-priced ancestral portraits from England at about the same time. But the fashion waned and almost disappeared until last week, when Gainsborough's Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews fetched a fat $364,000 at auction in London...