Word: henderson
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WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. A biography of the 19th century English artist who excelled as a poet, philosopher, painter, architect, furniture designer and interior decorator...
WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS by Philip Henderson. 388 pages. McGraw-Hill...
Instead, his medievalism, in the Victorian fashion, laid the foundation of a busy, prosperous and productive life. He detested the Renaissance, but he was close to resembling the common notion of what a many-faceted Renaissance man should be. Biographer Henderson presents a picture of Morris happily at work at his easel, humming a song that he had deciphered from a manuscript, turning aside to make a drawing on another table, sitting down to scratch out a few lines of verse or fable or jot down notes for a wallpaper design or a manifesto or a Homeric translation, then, tired...
Died. Thomas A. Morgan, 80, longtime head of Sperry Corp.; of a heart attack; in Henderson, N.C. Though he was not a flyer, in the early 1930s Morgan was president of North American Aviation and Curtiss-Wright, as well as Sperry Gyroscope; in 1933 he concentrated on Sperry, diversified into missiles and hay balers, and boosted annual sales from $3,000,000 to $240 million by retirement...
...vast conglomerate International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Sheraton and its 129 U.S. hotels and motels, together with 25 overseas, should fit nicely into ITT's "consumer services" group, which already includes Avis, Airport Parking Co. and 16 Holiday Inn franchises. For the time being, at least, Geneen will let Henderson and Boonisar run his 45th acquisition...