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The International who's who ; who's who in the world, incorporated with the International blue book … a biographical dictionary of the world's notable living men and women, 1910
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1out Fear 1946, Ambassador's Report 1954, The New Dimensions of Peace 1955, Africa's Challenge to America 1956, American Politics in a Revolutionary World 1956, Ideas, People and Peace 1958, The Coming Political Breakthrough 1960, Conscience of a Liberal 1962, Makings of a Just Society 1963, A View from New Delhi 1969, Promise to Keep 1971, Mission to India 1974. Address: Hayden's Point, Essex, Conn. 06426, U.S.A.
3BOWLES, Paul; American composer and writer; b. 30 Dec. 1910, New York; s. of Dr. Claude Dietz Bowles and Rena Winnewisser; m. Jane Auer 1938; ed. Univ. of Va. and in Berlin and Paris. Music Critic for New York Herald Tribune 1942-45; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and Rockefeller Grant. Compositions of music for films, for the theatre: Doctor Faustus, Twelfth Night, The Glass Menagerie, Cyrano de Bergerac, Watch on the Rhine, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More, etc.; scores for ballets: Yankee Clipper, Pastorela (American Ballet Company), Colloque Sentimental (Marquis de Cuevas); operas: Denmark Vesey, The Wind Remains, Yerma; and a number of sonatas, concertos, etc.; also wrote novels, The Sheltering Sky, Let it come Down, The Spider's House, Up Above the World; short stories, collections, A Little Stone, The Hours after Noon, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, Pages from Cold Point, Things Gone and Things Still Here; non-fiction, Their Heads are Green, Yallah! Without Stopping; Poetry: Scenes, The Thicket of Spring; trans. A Life Full of Holes (by Driss ben Hamed Charhadi), Love with a Few Hairs, The Lemon (by Mohammed Mrabet), M'Hashish, the Boy Who Set the Fire (by Mohammed Mrabet), For Bread Alone (by Mohamed Choukri), The Oblivion Seekers (by Isabelle Eberhardt), Look and Move On (by Mohammed Mrabet), Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins (by Mohammed Mrabet), The Big Mirror (by Mohammed Mrabet). Address: 2117 Tanger Socco, Tangier, Morocco.
5BOWRING, Edgar Rennie Harvey, M.C., M.A., F.B.I.M.; British lawyer and company executive; b. 5 Nov. 1915, Calif., U.S.A.; s. of Arthur and Margaret Bowring; m. Margaret Grace Brook 1943; two s. one d.; ed. Eastbourne Coll., Clare Coll., Cambridge, and Yale Univ.; served Kent Yeomanry and Royal Artillery 1943-46; admitted solicitor 1949; Partner, Cripps Harries Hall and Co. 1950-55; Solicitor, Dir. C. T. Bowring and Co. (Insurance) Ltd. 1960-73; mem. Lloyd's 1962-; Dir. C. T. Bowring and Co. Ltd. 1963-; Chair. English and American Insurance Co. Ltd. 1966-77, Deputy Chair. and Chief Exec. C. T. Bowring (Insurance) Holdings Ltd. 1970-73; Chair. Crusader Insurance Co. Ltd. 1973-77; Chair. Bowmaker Ltd. 1973-77; Chair. The Bowring Group of Companies 1973-78; Dir. Singer and Friedlander 1971-77; Deputy Pres. Insurance Inst. of London 1970-71, Pres. 1971-72; Fellow, Corp. of Insurance Brokers. Leisure interests: golf, gardening. Address: The Bowring Building, Tower Place, London, EC3P 3BE, England. Telephone: 01-283 3100.
7BOWRING, Peter; British company director; b. 22 April 1923, Bromborough; s. of Frederick Clive and Agnes Walker (née Cairns) Bowring; m. Barbara Ekaterina Brewis 1946; (divorced); one s. one d.; ed. Shrewsbury School; commissioned, Rifle Brigade 1942, served in Egypt, North Africa, Italy and Austria (mentioned in dispatches); Dir. Bowring Jones and Tidy Ltd. 1952, C. T. Bowring & Co. Ltd. 1956; Chair. C. T. Bowring Trading (Holdings) Ltd. 1967; Deputy Chair. C. T. Bowring and Co. Ltd. 1973; Chair. Bowring Steamship Co. Ltd. 1974, Bowmaker (Plant) Ltd. 1972, Bowmaker Ltd. 1978-, C. T. Bowring & Co. Ltd. 1978-; Chair. Help The Aged; Chair. Bd. of Governors, St. Dunstans Educational Foundation; mem. Bd. of Governors, Shrewsbury School; mem. Council of Aldeburgh Festival; mem. Action Resource Centre Advisory Council. Leisure interests: sailing, cooking, listening to music. Address: The Bowring Building, Tower Place, London, EC3P 3BE (Office); Flat Five, 69 Onslow Square, London, SW7 3LS, England (Home). Telephone: 01-283 3100 (Office); 01-584 8946 (Home).
9BOYA, Thomas S.; Benin teacher and diplomatist; b. 6 Feb. 1936, Ouidah; m.; five c. Teacher of English, Lycée Behanzin 1961-74; Headmaster, No. 1 Secondary School, Ouidah 1974-75; Perm. Rep. to UN Jan. 1976-. Address: Permanent Mission of Benin to the United Nations, 4 East 73rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10021, U.S.A.
11BOYCOTT, Geoffrey; British cricketer; b. 21 Oct. 1940, Fitzwilliam, Yorks.; s. of late Thomas Wilfred Boycott and Jane Boycott; ed. Kinsley Modern School and Hemsworth Grammar School; fmly. in civil service, debut as cricketer (right-hand batsman) for Yorkshire 1962, received County Cap 1963, Captain of Yorkshire 1970-78; played for England 1964-74, 1977-; appointed Vice-Captain, England team to Pakistan and New Zealand 1977-78, took over captaincy on injury of M. J. Brearley, Jan. 1978; only Englishman to achieve average of 100 in English County season 1971; scored 100th hundred, England v. Australia, Headingley, Leeds Aug. 1977; became 18th batsman in history of game to score 100 hundreds and the first to achieve this in a Test Match. Publication: Geoff Boycott's Book for Young Cricketers 1976, Put to the Test: Ashes Series in Australia 1978/79 1979, Geoff Boycott's Cricket Quiz 79; Leisure interests: golf, tennis. Address: Fitzwilliam, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England.
13BOYD, Aquilino Edgardo; Panamanian lawyer and diplomatist; b. 1921; ed. La Salle, Panama City, Holy Cross Coll., U.S.A., Univs. de la Habana and Panamá. First Sec. Cuba 1946-47, Washington 1947-48; mem. Panama Nat. Assembly 1948-64; Pres. Nat. Assembly 1949; Minister Foreign Affairs 1959-58, 1976-77; Perm. Rep. to UN 1962-67, 1968-76. Address: c/o Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Panama City, Panama.
15BOYD, Arthur Merric Bloomfield; Australian painter; b. 24 July 1920, Murrumbeena; s. of Merric Boyd and Doris Gough; m. Yvonne Lennie 1945; one s. two d.; ed. State School, Murrumbeena, Victoria; taught painting and sculpture by parents and grandfather; painted and exhibited in Australia 1937-59, in England 1959-; now works in England and Australia. Publication: Monograph 1967. Address: c/o Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd., 34 Piccadilly, London, W.1, England.
17BOYD, Howard Taney, J.D., LL.D.; American business executive; b. 5 June 1909, Woodside, Maryland; s. of Howard T. Boyd and Mary Violet (Stewart); m. Lucille Belhumeur 1935; one s. two d.; ed. Georgetown Univ.; admitted D.C. Bar 1934, Texas Bar; Sec. to Attorney-Gen. of U.S. 1934; Asst. U.S. Attorney, D.C. 1935-39; Partner, law firm Hogan and Hartson, Washington 1939-52; Vice-Pres., Asst. Gen. Counsel, El Paso Natural Gas Co. (renamed The El Paso Company, 1974) 1952-57, Dir. 1953-, Exec. Vice-Pres. 1957-60, Pres. 1960-65, Chair., Chief Policy Officer 1974-; Dir. The Greyhound Corp., Armour and Co., Texas Commerce Bank N.A., U.S.—U.S.S.R. Trade and Econ Council, American Heart Assn., Houston Symphony Soc.; mem. U.S. Council World Energy Conf. Address: 2727 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas 77019 (Office); 6042 Crab Orchard, Houston, Texas 77057, U.S.A. (Home).
19BOYD OF MERTON, 1st Viscount, cr. 1960, of Merton-in-Penningham in the county of Wigtown; Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, P.C., C.H.; British politician and business executive; b. 18 Nov. 1904, Bournemouth; s. of Alan Walter Lennox-Boyd and Florence Begbie; m. Lady Patricia Florence Susan Guinness 1938; three s.; ed. Sherborne and Christ Church, Oxford. Pres. of the Union, Oxford 1926; Conservative M.P. for Mid-Beds. 1931-60; Parl. Sec., Ministries of Labour 1938, of Home Security 1939, of Food 1939-40, and of Aircraft Production 1943-45; served R.N.V.R. 1940-43; Minister of State for Colonial Affairs 1951-52; Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation 1952-54; Sec. of State for Colonies 1954-59; Exec. Dir. Arthur Guinness Son & Co. Ltd. 1959-61, Man. Dir. 1961-67, Joint Vice-Chair. 1967-; Dir. Tate and Lyle 1966-74, Imperial Chemical Industries 1967-75; Trustee, British Museum 1962-77, Natural History Museum 1963-75; Chair. Conservative mission to monitor Rhodesian elections 1979; D. L. Cornwall 1965-. Leisure interests: sailing, fishing, shooting. Address: 6 Iveagh House, Ormond Yard, London S.W.1; and Ince Castle, Saltash, Cornwall, England. Telephone: 01-839 3969.
21BOYD-CARPENTER, Baron (Life Peer), cr. 1972, of Crux Easton in the County of Southampton; Rt. Hon. John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, P.C.; British administrator; b. 2 June 1908; s. of late Sir Archibald, M.P., and Lady Boyd-Carpenter; m. Margaret Mary Hall 1937; one s. two d.; ed. Stowe School and Balliol Coll., Oxford. Pres. Oxford Union Soc. 1930; called to Bar 1934; practised S.E. Circuit; joined Scots Guards 1939, served until 1945; M.P. 1945-72; Financial Sec. to Treasury 1951-54; Privy Councillor 1954; Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation 1954-55, of Pensions and Nat. Insurance 1955-62, Chief Sec. to Treasury and Paymaster-Gen. 1962-64; Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Housing and Land 1964-66; Chair. Public Accounts Cttee. House of Commons 1964-70, Local Govt. Advisory Cttee. of Conservative Greater London Area Org. 1968; Dir. Orion Insurance Co. 1967, 1972, Chair. 1969-72, C.L.R.P. Investment Trust 1967, Chair. 1970-72, City and Int. Investment Trust 1966-, Life Assn. of Scotland 1970-72; mem. Council, Trust Houses-Forte Ltd. 1970-72, 1977-; Dir. Rugby Portland Cement Co. 1971-, Chair 1977-; Dir. Parmelia Hotel Pty. Ltd., Mill Properties Pty. Ltd., Compagnie pour les Recherches et Dévoilements; Chair. U.K. Civil Aviation Authority 1972-77; High Steward of Kingston upon Thames and Deputy Lieut. for Greater London 1973-. Leisure interests: swimming, tennis. Address: Rugby Portland Cement Co., Crown House, Rugby, Warwicks.; and Rugby Portland Cement Co., 106 Park Street, London, W.1 (Office); 12 Eaton Terrace, London S.W.1, England. (Home). Telephone: 0788-2111 (Rugby); 01-493 4272 (London) (Home).
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