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Returning to Michigan aboard his chartered plane-appropriately, a de Havilland Dove-the Governor went straight to the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak to pick up his wife Lenore, who had suffered a broken arm and dislocated shoulder two days earlier when she slipped in the shower at the Romneys' Bloomfield Hills home. For reasons that go beyond personal affection, Romney's aides are hoping she mends swiftly. Lenore is a considerable asset on the stump, provides a warmly feminine counterpoint to her husband's granite-jawed, combative style, and helps calm him when the going...
...manufacturer, Frederick C. Matthaei Jr., 42, son of the founder of American Metal Products Co., George B. Kilborne, 37, a Yale classmate of Parsons', and George W. Miller, 43, whom the group tapped to become president of Commonwealth after its takeover. Their acquisitions include banks in Lansing, Royal Oak, Kalamazoo and Coopersville, as well as office buildings in Detroit and Ann Arbor and interests in small business corporations in Detroit and New York. The more they expand, the more irritated Detroit bankers become. But Group Leader Parsons, already a millionaire, says he has no quarrel with anyone. "There...
...version of corn bread, jonny is derived from journey, not John. The recipe: "The corn must be ground by finegrained stones, which would make 'flat' meal instead of 'round.' The meal should be made into dough and spread on the middle board of a red oak barrelhead [and then baked]. Only walnut coals were worthy, and the crust as it browned should be basted with cream...
Alan Bates, as the simple farmer, Gabriel Oak, and Peter Finch, as the wealthy farmer, William Boldwood, come off better because their characters are not intended to be complex. They serve principally as foils--constants throughout the film off whom the relationship between Miss Christie and Stamp can bounce. Bates, in particular, has landed a strong, sympathetic part, and his ultimate triumph is quite satisfying...
Months later, at their engagement party, the wild-eyed Troy enters to repossess his wife. Boldwood guns down his rival and is taken to prison, leaving the way for Bathsheba and Oak, who has stood patiently in the wings until the melodrama played itself...