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...interested in his views on why it is good to have money, in the family album snapshots of his children and his recollections of the great. At one point Lambert tells the Einstein anecdote in which the Father of Relativity, asked by Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt if he likes yacht-racing, replies: "No, Mr. Vanderbilt, I am not interested in anything like that; it is so obvious that one of them must win." That was never obvious to the Father of Halitosis, who knows that to win takes skill (in sailing) and advertising (in business). In fact, Lambert's chief...
...says, "I couldn't sit back and cut coupons. I like a man's world." She also finds time to care for three adopted Norwegian children, try new recipes (out of 50 cookbooks), follow the fortunes of a stable of racing thoroughbreds, sail a 12-meter racing yacht, oversee a score of philanthropies (brain tumor, cerebral palsy, other medical research). Since women control an increasing amount of the nation's wealth, says Mrs. Bay, she feels that they ought to take a greater part in the financial world. Says she: "Times have really changed on Wall Street...
Career: At 30, became assistant private secretary to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. First foreign assignment: Peking. While chargé d'affaires in Athens in 1941, he escaped the Nazis by sailing for Crete on a yacht, was rescued when the yacht was sunk by German planes. During assignment to Allied North African Headquarters, he worked with many Americans now in key spots in Washington, including Dwight Eisenhower. Later he became British head of the Anglo-American political section of Allied Control Commission in Italy, then, in 1944, troubleshooter in liberated Greece. After the war, he helped reorganize Britain...
...travel schedule. Last month he visited the Salzburg Festival, darted over to Lucerne for another festival (he conducted a Mozart program), then flew on to the island of Ischia in the bay of Naples, where he rested for a few days. From there he sailed his 50-ton yacht (crew of three) to Portofino, motored to Genoa, hopped a plane to Zurich, got into his waiting silver-grey Mercedes 300 SL and soloed at a breakneck 90 m.p.h. back to Lucerne for rehearsals and a concert, then caught a plane for West Berlin for three days of rehearsals with...
...fighters and mail planes, quit the Boeing Airplane Co. in 1934, returned as an unofficial adviser during World War II, when the firm built the legendary Flying Fortresses (B-178) and Superforts (B-293), later saw Boeing develop the B-52 jet bomber; of a heart attack aboard his yacht; in Puget Sound...