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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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1Commr., Kuala Lumpur 1966; Political Officer for Sikkim and Bhutan 1967-70; Amb. to Indonesia 1970-73; Joint Sec. Ministry of External Affairs 1973-75; Amb. to Turkey 1975-76, to Nepal Nov. 1976-. Address: Embassy of India, P.O. Box 292, Katmandu, Nepal. Telephone: 11300.
3MENON, Parakat Achutha, B.A.; Indian diplomatist; b. 2 Jan. 1905, Palghat; s. of the late Sir Mannath Krishnan Nair; m. Palat Padmini Menon 1930; one s. one d.; ed. Presidency Coll., Madras, and New Coll., Oxford; joined Indian Civil Service 1929, and held various posts in Madras Provincial Govt. and Cen. Govt., including Under-Sec., Public Works Dept., Govt. of Madras 1934-37; Under-Sec., Home Dept., Govt. of India 1938-41; Collector and District Magistrate, Guntur, Madras 1941-43; mem. Indian Legislative Assembly 1938-39; Deputy Sec. and Sec., India Supply Mission, Washington, D.C. 1944-47; adviser, Indian Del. to UN, San Francisco 1945, New York 1946; served on Far East Comm., Washington, D.C. 1946-47; Del. UNRRA Conf., Atlantic City 1946; Jt. Sec. Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India 1947-49; Minister to Portugal 1949-51; Amb. to Belgium and concurrently Minister to Luxembourg 1951-54; Amb. to Thailand 1954-56; High Commr. in Australia and New Zealand 1956-59; Amb. to Argentina 1959-60, to Fed. Germany 1961-64; Chair. Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd. (FACT), Kerala 1965-70; Dir. State Bank of India 1965-73, Cochin Refineries Ltd., Mysore Tools Ltd., Premier Breweries Ltd.; Pres. Madras Musical Assn., Fed. of Indo-German Soc. in India; Chair. Madras Industrial Linings Ltd., Indo-German Chamber of Commerce Southern Region Council, Madras Literacy Soc., Madras Kerala Samaj Educ. Soc., Indian Council of World Affairs (Madras Branch); Vice-Pres. Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, Indian Inst. of Public Admin. (Madras Branch); mem. Exec. Council Indian Inst. of Public Admin., New Delhi. Leisure interests: reading, music. Address: 'Padmaja', 4A Tank Bund Road, Madras 34, India. Telephone: 82832 (Home).
5MENON, Vatakke Kurupath Narayana, M.A., PH.D.; Indian radio official; b. 27 June 1911, Trichur, Kerala; s. of Parameswaran Nambudiripad; m. Rekha Devi Mukherji 1945; one d.; ed. Univ. of Madras and Edinburgh Univ.; Script Writer, Producer and Adviser for E. Services of BBC during Second World War; returned to India 1947; Dir. of Broadcasting, Baroda State 1947-48; joined All-India Radio as Dir. of Staff Training 1948, became Dir. of Delhi, Madras and Calcutta Stations, Dir. of External Services and Deputy Dir.-Gen.; Sec. Nat. Acad. of Music, Dance and Drama, India 1963-65; Dir.-Gen. All-India Radio 1965-68; Pres. Int. Music Council (UNESCO) 1966-68, 1976-78; mem. Faculty of Music, Delhi Univ.; Exec. Dir. Nat. Centre for the Performing Arts, Bombay 1968-; Vice-Chair. Int. Inst. for Comparative Music Studies, Berlin; Hon. Exec. Dir. Homi Bhabha Fellowship Council 1968-; Trustee Int. Broadcasting Inst. 1969-77; Scholar-in-Residence, Aspen Inst. for Humanistic Studies 1973; Padma Bhushan 1969. Publications: Development of William Butler Yeats 1942, 1960, Kerala, a Profile 1961, Balasaraswathi 1963, The Communications Revolution 1976. Leisure interest: mass communication media. Address: National Centre for the Performing Arts, Nariman Point, Bombay 400021, India. Telephone: 310011 (Office); 316364 (Home).
7MENOTTI, Gian Carlo; Italian composer; b. 7 July 1911; ed. Curtis Inst. of Music, Philadelphia, Pa.; went to U.S.A. 1928; mem. teaching staff Curtis Inst. of Music 1941-45; Hon. B.M. (Curtis Inst. of Music); Guggenheim Award 1946, 1947; Pulitzer Prize 1950, 1955; Hon. Assoc. Nat. Inst. of Arts and Letters 1953; Pres. Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy. Compositions include: Operas: Amelia Goes to the Ball, The Old Maid and the Thief, The Island God, The Telephone, The Medium, The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Labyrinth (own libretti), The Saint of Bleecker Street 1954, The Last Savage 1963, Martin's Lie 1964, Help, Help, The Glotolinks (space opera for children) 1968, The Most Important Man in the World 1971, Tamu Tamu; Ballet: Sebastian; Film: The Medium (producer); Vanessa (libretto) 1958, The Unicorn, The Gorgon and the Manticore—a Madrigal Fable, Maria Golovin 1959, The Last Superman 1961, The Death of a Bishop of Brindisi (cantata) 1963; chamber music, songs, etc. Address: 27 East 62nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10021, U.S.A.
9MENSAH, Joseph Henry, M.SC.; Ghanaian politician; b. 31 Oct. 1928; ed. Achimota Coll., Univ. Coll. of Gold Coast (now Univ. of Ghana), London School of Econs. and Stanford Univ.; Asst. Insp. of Taxes 1953; Research Fellow, Univ. Coll. of Gold Coast 1953-57; Lecturer in Economics, Univ. of Ghana 1957-58; Economist, UN H.Q., New York 1958-61; Chief Economist, Prin. Sec. and Exec. Sec. of Nat. Planning Comm. Ghana 1961-65; Economist, UN Dir., Div. of Trade and Econ. Co-operation, and Econ. Comm. for Africa (ECA) 1965-69; Commr. of Finance April-July 1969; M.P. for Sunyani (Progress Party) 1969-72; Minister of Finance 1969-72, and of Econ. Planning 1969-71; arrested Jan. 1972, released July 1973; re-arrested 1975; sentenced to eight years' imprisonment with hard labour Oct. 1975, released June 1978.
11MENUHIN, Yehudi; American violinist; b. 22 April 1916, New York; s. of Moshe and Marutha Menuhin; m. 1st Nola Ruby Nicholas 1938, one s. one d.; m. 2nd Diana Rosamund Gould 1947, two s.; ed. privately in America and Europe; studied with Sigmund Anker, Louis Persinger, Georges Enesco (in Romania) and with Adolph Busch in Basel; New York debut 1925, Paris 1927 and Berlin 1929 (with Bruno Walter and the Berlin Philharmonic); first world tour 1935, in retirement 1935-37, subsequently appeared as soloist in orchestras under Toscanini, Furtwängler, Stokowski, Koussevitsky, Beecham, Paul Paray, Walter, Mitropoulos, etc.; has undertaken much research and restoration of neglected compositions; gave numerous benefit concerts during and after World War II; since 1945 has toured extensively all over the world and has made documentary musical films in Europe and America; Pres. Trinity Coll. of Music, London; f. the Yehudi Menuhin School, Surrey 1963; yearly festival at Gstaad 1957-, Bath 1959-68, Windsor 1969; records for His Master's Voice; appeared in film, Raga (with George Harrison and Ravi Shankar) 1974; Hon. D.Mus. (Oxford, Belfast, Leicester, London, Cambridge, Ottawa, Paris, Surrey), Hon. LL.D. (St. Andrews, Liverpool, Sussex, Bath), Hon. D.Lit. (Warwick, Leicester), Hon. Doctorate (California); Mozart Medal 1965, Nehru Award for Peace and Int. Understanding (India) 1970, Sonning Music Prize, Denmark 1972, 30th Anniversary Medal of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Canadian Music Council Gold Medal, Rosenberger Medal of Univ. of Chicago; Hon. Swiss Citizen 1970, Freedom of Cities of Edinburgh and Bath; Médaille d'Or de la Ville de Paris, Royal Order of Phoenix, Greece, Légion d'honneur, Order of Leopold, Order of Crown, Belgium, Order of Merit, Germany, Hon. K.B.E. (U.K.). Publications: The Violin—Six Lessons with Yehudi Menuhin 1971, Theme and Variations 1972, The Violin 1976, Violin and Viola (with William Primrose) 1976, Unfinished Journey (autobiography) 1977. Address: c/o Harold Holt, 134 Wigmore Street, London, W.1, England.
13MENZIES, Arthur Redpath, B.A., M.A.; Canadian diplomatist; b. 29 Nov. 1916; ed. Canadian Acad., Kobe, Japan, Univ. of Toronto and Harvard Univ.; Dept. of External Affairs 1940-, Second Sec., Havana 1945-46; Head of American and Far East Div., Dept. of External Affairs, Ottawa 1948-50; Head of Canadian Liaison Mission, Tokyo 1950, later Chargé d'Affaires, Tokyo; Head, Far Eastern Div., Dept. of External Affairs 1953-58; High Commr. in Malaya 1958-61, concurrently Amb. to Burma 1958-61; Head of Defence Liaison (I) Div., Dept. of External Affairs 1962-65; High Commr. in Australia 1965-72, concurrently High Commr. to Fiji 1970-72; Perm. Rep. to N. Atlantic Council 1972-76; Amb. to People's Repub. of China 1976-, concurrently to Socialist Repub. of Viet-Nam. Address: Canadian Embassy, 10 San Li Tun Road, Peking, People's Republic of China.
15MENZIES, Sir Peter (Thomson), M.A., F.INST.P., C.I.E.E., F.R.S.A.; British business executive; b. 15 April 1912, Chichester, Sussex; s. of John C. Menzies and Helen S. Aikman; m. Mary McPherson Alexander Menzies 1938; one s. one d.; ed. Musselburgh Grammar School and Univ. of Edinburgh; Inland Revenue Dept. 1933-39; Treasurer's Dept., Imperial Chemical Industries (I.C.I.) Ltd. 1939-47, Asst. Treasurer 1947-52, Deputy Treasurer 1952-56, Finance Dir. 1956-57, Deputy Chair. 1967-72; Chair. Imperial Metal Industries Ltd. 1964-72, Electricity Council 1972-77; Dir. Commercial Union Assurance Co. 1962-; Part-time mem. Central Electricity Generating Bd. 1960-72; Dir. Nat. Westminster Bank Ltd. 1968-; Pres. Int. Union of Producers and Distributors of Electrical Energy (UNIPEDE) 1973-76; Fellow Inst. of Dirs. 1974. Address: Kit's Corner, Harmer Green, Welwyn, Herts., England. Telephone: 014-387-4386.
17MEO, Jean Alfred Emile Edouard; French company director; b. 26 April 1927, Vosne Romanée, Côte d'Or; s. of Gaston MEO and Marcelle Lamarche; m. Nicole Odelin 1955; one s. two d.; ed. Lycée Henri IV, Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nat. Supérieure des Mines, Inst. d'Etudes Politiques; operations engineer, Lorraine Basin coalfields 1952-53; Head of sub-regional mineralogical admin., Lille, teacher at Inst. Industriel du Nord 1954-56; technical adviser to Minister of Finance 1957; worked in office of Gen. de Gaulle 1958, in Secr. of Presidency 1959-60; Chief Engineer Corps des Mines 1966-; Asst. Man. Dir., later Man. Dir. Union Générale des Pétroles 1964-72 (name changed to Elf Union 1967); Asst. Man. Dir. div. of refining and distribution, ERAP 1966-72 (name changed to Elf-Entreprise Pétrolière 1967); mem. Bd. of Dirs. and Man. Dir. SOCANTAR 1970-72; Deputy Man. Dir. France-Editions et Publications 1972-74; Deputy Man. Dir. attached to Chair., Agence Havas 1974, Pres. and Man. Dir. June 1974-; Chair. and Man. Dir.
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