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Liaquat is fond of saying that he came to Karachi as a refugee, just like 6,000,000 other citizens of the new state. Behind him in India he left extensive real estate, was amused recently to receive a notice from India's internal revenue department reminding him to pay his taxes...
Best Friend's Wife. Yet Main Line is far less than an adequate analysis of its subject, and something less than a good novel. For one thing, Novelist Biddle seems too fuzzy-fond of his world to see it clearly. For another, his story is a little too pat to be believable: a scion of one of the first families runs off with his best friend's wife; their noses are thoroughly rubbed in the mess they have made by both families and by most of their friends; then, gradually, family & friends forgive them...
...effect, the U.S. policy for the countries of Southeast Asia is: yes, you shall have some candy-one piece at a time-but you must earn it, and then say please. And you mustn't spoil your dinner. To the Communists, the U.S. also said: we're fond of Southeast Asia, but not prepared to fight...
...begins with Monique Champin's first visit to Biarritz just after the war. She was 16 then, luscious and very fond of the beach. Her family moved in the upper level of France's famous "200." Her father's fortune was solidly founded in Hants Fourneaux, Forges et Aciéries de Pompey (iron & steel works). Her mother Margot, née Pereire, was rated one of the best-dressed women in Paris; after divorcing Champin, Margot had married Edmund Bory, owner of the Colony-Club, a select oasis for select society near the Champs-Elys...
Prayers & Pep Talks. Beveridge built his original sales staff around former Fuller employees, kept 51% control of the company for himself. Fond of old-fashioned virtues, he rules his roost with a hand of iron, a heart of gold, and an eye on the Scriptures. His Westfield offices and the nearby Easthampton production plant are dotted with such slogans as: "The vision to see, the faith to believe, and the courage to do." Beveridge opens every business meeting with the Stanley prayer: "0 Lord . . . help me to enter into the mind of everyone who talks with...