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...long before we realize that proper management of a company's people, its most valuable resource, is the key to long-term prosperity?" RICHARD D. TOWNSEND Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
BORN: April 15, 1946, Rahway, N.J. EDUCATION: Wesley College, A.A., 1971; Delaware State U, B.A., 1973 FAMILY: Wife, Barbara; three children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Marines, 1964-68 OCCUPATION: Teacher POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 644, Townsend Building, Chestertown...
Eton is famous for its blue bloods and for the statesmen and men of letters it has turned out. The students there acquire an elegance and gloss. Sue Townsend, author of the satirical The Queen and I and no monarchist, says, "William has that Etonian look already. The boys are burnished; they are like angels, you know, and they float around the world." It is likely that during his five years there, Wills won't have too much time to think about his battling parents. His day is a strict drill. Up at 8, compulsory chapel after breakfast, classes...
Princess Margaret's saga runs throughout the narrative, showing that today's young royals did not invent bad behavior. Margaret was prettier and wittier than her sister, but Elizabeth got the throne. Shortly thereafter, Margaret told her sister and sovereign that she loved the divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend and wanted to marry him. Scarred by memories of the abdication and cautious in her role as head of the Church of England, Elizabeth turned her down; Margaret never really recovered, and the episode may have left the Queen permanently incapable of disciplining her family. Margaret's subsequent marriage to photographer...
DIED. GROUP CAPTAIN PETER TOWNSEND, 80, British war hero and tragic romantic figure; in Paris. A decorated fighter pilot, Townsend downed 11 enemy planes during World War II. But he lost his postwar battle with the royal family and Queen Elizabeth, who disapproved of her sister Princess Margaret's romance with the dashing but divorced royal attendant. "She could have married me," Townsend wrote in his 1978 autobiography, "only if she had been prepared to give up everything." She wasn't. Townsend went into tasteful Continental exile in 1955, forging careers as a disc jockey, wine buyer and U.N. adviser...