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Died. Charles W. Engelhard, 54, lavish-living multimillionaire who may have served as the model for the central character in Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger: of an apparent heart attack: in Boca Grande, Fla. Engelhard ballooned an inheritance of $20 million into an estimated $250 million by his grasp of the potential of precious metals in technology. Equally successful in racing, he spent close to $10 million for top-quality thoroughbreds, had 213 victories in the U.S. in nine years. After his acquaintance Fleming published Goldfinger, Engelhard emphasized the obvious by once showing up for a party...
...which Penn Central was also investing. After the railroad gained control of the company, Penphil sold its stock to Penn Central for $377,500, realizing a profit of $212,500 in less than two years.* Beginning in 1966, Penphil bought 21,380 shares of First Bank & Trust Co. of Boca Raton, Fla., for $332,924. A real estate subsidiary of the Penn Central, Arvida Corp., moved huge deposits into the bank, and as realty development helped the bank to thrive, the value of Penphil's investment grew...
...PETER LAURITZEN Boca Raton...
...Hill. Richard A. Frank. of Quincy House and Flushing. N. Y., Gregory B. Gabriel. of Quincy House and Oceanside, Cal.. Ary L. Goldberger. of Kirkland House and Scarsdale. N. Y., Robert E. Harding. Jr., of Adams House and Minneapolis, Minn., and Michael C. Harper of Dunster House and Boca Raton...
...Roosevelts. Berating F.D.R. and his family in column after column, he termed the President a "feebleminded fiihrer" and found it "regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara hit the wrong man when he shot at Roosevelt in Miami." He waged a vendetta against Eleanor Roosevelt, whom he dismissed as "La Boca Grande" (the big mouth). Pegler once defended such tactics with a confession: "My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively than my friendships...