Word: businesswoman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the streets of Paris, pursued by the big black cat of Death. She flutters past a market, where carcasses of cattle hang from brutal hooks and the butchers inspect her expertly, as though she were a carcass too. She flutters to her manager (Dominique Davray), a hard-faced businesswoman who comforts her meticulously but unemotionally, as though smoothing a 500-franc note. She flies back to her gilded cage in time to preen and twitter for the man who keeps her for the same reasons he keeps a second car: convenience and ostentation. Her songwriters arrive, and the canary...
...Manhattan hotels where an effort at Edwardian elegance reigns: the Stanhope (a favorite of Princess Grace Kelly) and the Gotham. Their handsome owner, Mrs. Evelyn Sharp, 58, runs them as her home, e.g., desk clerks wear evening clothes after 6 p.m., coffee is ground just before brewing. Shrewd Businesswoman Sharp (who took over Sharp Ltd. Hotels on the death of her husband in 1941) last week sold the Gotham, the Stanhope and California's Beverly Wilshire to William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp for $25 million. As replacements, Mrs. Sharp plans to put up in Manhattan and Beverly Hills...
...Denver Post survey disclosed that seven out of ten Coloradans favor war over retreat. Of 32 Atlantans questioned, only one admitted willingness to give up Berlin rather than fight. "Sure it's a dangerous world and nobody wants war," said a North Hollywood businesswoman. "But if we kick in our chips over Berlin, we might as well kick in the whole pot. The effort has to be made somewhere, risk or no risk, and it might as well be over Berlin." To show weakness in Berlin, said Miami Hotel Executive Carl H. Ransom Jr., is only "to give...
Caedmon releases, Businesswoman Mantell estimates, have reached an audience of 2,000,000-many of them "people who haven't picked up a book of poetry since they left school. If a person is not a serious student, there is something about the printed page which separates him from poetry; recorded works bridge the gap. This is pretty reassuring at a time when so many are flagellating themselves with the failure of American culture...
...ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights with men and proclaimed herself a candidate for the presidency...