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...Wharton School of Finance, but left after one semester to enlist in the Navy. For three years (including ten months in the Pacific) Leader was a World War II supply officer. After the war he returned to York County and (with the help of a G.I. loan ) bought Willow Brook Farm, a 28-acre outfit with a tidy 80-year-old brick house and an operating hatchery just 15 miles from his birthplace. After a grinding first year, Willow Brook Farm paid off handsomely. Leader now sells more than 1,000,000 chicks and 60,000 broilers each year...
Mary Leader looks after the three young Leaders and takes care of Willow Brook's books, clattering out the accounts on her typewriter and balancing the books until midnight, most nights, while George relaxes in front of the TV set. (His favorite performers: Imogene Coca, Sid Caesar, Sam Levenson...
...Form, not substance," was the reaction of the Arboretum group, and their tempers were not sweetened when the Corporation ordered the new building begun. Wishing to retain the gardens as the unit Sargent had built, they could brook so such withdrawals, which they said was "milking" the Arboretum and turning it into a "park...
Fourth row: Kekoa D. Kaapu of Honolulu and Lionel; John M. King, of Binghamton, N.Y. and Grays West; Eugene Lew of Baltimore, Md. and Stoughton South; Edward McKirdy of Newark, N.J. and Apley Court; Barry S. Meltzer of Boston and Dudley; E. Richard Meulenberg of Stony Brook, N.Y. and Matthews South; Gordon R. Sugarman of New Haven, Conn. and Mower; Griffth J. Winthrop of Canandaigua, N.Y. and Wigglesworth. Absent was Leon E. Sophics of Worcester, Mass. and Dudley
Bowater built a newsprint mill on the Thames near London, and another near Liverpool, to supply several mass-circulation London dailies. He acquired timberlands and mills in Scandinavia, and as war approached turned to Newfoundland, where he bought International Paper's big plant at Corner Brook, and 7,000,000 acres of timber. At war's end, Sir Eric started diversifying into paper bags, paperboard and other products, which now account for almost 20% of his production. The $250 million Bowater empire now employs 16,000 in some 40 companies spread through eight nations of the free world...