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...PATRIARCH: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BINGHAM DYNASTY...
Tifft and Jones root the Binghams in Southern traditions, from the mythmaking of genteel poverty to the brute force of the Klan, and sidle up to intriguing questions about the morality of inheriting vast fortunes and the special duties of media owners. But the core story is the mid-1980s sale of all Bingham companies for $448 million by Barry Bingham Sr., then 79. His son and namesake unsurprisingly felt that an adult lifetime of corporate devotion entitled him to the lion's share of control. Two wayward sisters, whom Barry Jr. had disenfranchised, equally unsurprisingly felt entitled to more...
While confirming many rumors, Tifft and Jones debunk the darkest: that Judge Robert Worth Bingham murdered the new wife whose bequest enabled him to buy the papers in 1918. They suggest that she died of alcoholism or tertiary syphilis contracted from a prior spouse. Promised revelations about what finally led Barry Sr. to sell prove anticlimactic: senior aides were ready to move on, making continued family operation unmanageable. What really deserted the Binghams was the faith that a family-owned newspaper is more than a mere capital asset. The book never proves that Bingham ownership was all that good...
Last year's captain and co-Bingham Award winner Jon Bernstein has gone on to Olympic training, as have Keir Pearson and Peter Sharis, two of last year's stalwarts. Harvard will have to depend on returnees from last season's varsity boats and members of last year's undefeated freshman boat to fill their voids...
Lind scored seconds later, keeping intact Harvard's perfect record on power play opportunities, and Yale sent Bingham back in for the rest of the game...