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Doubtless Ford does not want to step down entirely until he has resolved the legal and family tangles that have swirled up around him. The sometimes raucous annual meeting brought together most of the chief protagonists in these dramas. There was, for instance, Henry's rebellious nephew Benson Ford, 29, who was in Detroit not only for the meeting but also to push a lawsuit that is part of his fight to elbow his way onto the Ford board. Also present was Henry's only son Edsel, 30, who is assistant managing director of the company...
...what has become something of a Ford tradition, the meeting had its full quotient of melodrama and mania. A woman stockholder fainted at the microphone after nominating Benson for the board. Professional Board Baiter Evelyn Davis, who came in a red plastic fire hat, dismissed the many present and former Ford employees in the audience as "stooges." Through it all, Henry remained the star. He was frequently applauded by Ford loyalists who had come to see the chairman preside at his last such gathering...
...Chlvalric Romances of the Middle Ages," Larry D. Benson...
...courts. For about a year, Cohn has been pressing a suit charging the motor company's boss with a variety of improprieties and seeking a still undetermined amount in damages. Last week Cohn got an assist from a fairly surprising quarter: Henry Ford's nephew. Benson Ford Jr., 29, who is already involved in a legal battle to gain control of a $7.5 million inheritance, including roughly $6 million in Ford stock, announced that he was planning several suits against Ford officials. His choice of counsel: Roy Cohn. The lawyer describes his new client as yet another stockholder...
Last week, after lunching with Cohn and Benson Ford, New York Times Columnist William Safire wrote a savory story. He reported that New York Governor Hugh Carey, the longtime suitor of Ford's daughter Anne, had prevailed on Frank Sinatra to meet with Ford. Safire speculated broadly that Ford hoped that Sinatra's gangland contacts would get to Cohn's underworld law clients and persuade the lawyer to lay off. The column raised such a furor that Safire rather grudgingly wrote another piece reporting the many disclaimers...