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Though retired now, and careful not to overdo, J.D.R. Jr. is still the head of the clan. Each day in The Eyrie he rises at 7, breakfasts at 8 (he takes no coffee, no tea), starts work on his projects at 9. Lunch is served at noon, and afterward he takes a ritualistic one-hour nap, getting into pajamas, sleeping soundly. Sometimes he works through the afternoon; sometimes he relaxes among his Oriental wood carvings and Chinese Buddhas; sometimes he takes the second Mrs. Rockefeller (his beloved Abby died in 1948; in 1951 he married Martha Baird Allen, widow...
...warmhearted, nonfictional account of a hard-pressed German family's struggle for survival in the immediate postwar period, here offers a fictional study of a German family falling apart after a half-decade or more of peace and growing prosperity. The brawling, sprawling, 15-member clan that occupies the first two floors of a Ruhr Valley tenement house is known to its neighbors only as "the bunker family." This is a snide reference to the family's having lived 4½ years in a bunker (bomb shelter) under the Cologne Cathedral...
...with it Dirk's romance. The bloody mob riots that result in the burning of Shepheard's Hotel lead Major Khaled and a few other hothead officers to try an overnight coup. Dirk is jailed briefly and ordered to leave the country. When Aziza and clan hear of his disgrace, he gets an even quicker brushoff. As Aziza screams her parting words, they seem almost like an Egyptian anathema on all foreigners: "Son of a dog! I'll find an Egyptian ten times better than...
Since Herman Ridder, an immigrant's son, bought the German-language New York Staats-Zeitiing in 1890, the publishing Ridder clan has grown to three sons and eight grandsons-and their newspaper empire has kept pace. This week Ridder Publications Inc. bought the only two dailies in Pasadena. Calif., the evening Star-News (circ. 41,120) and the morning Independent (circ. 35,588). Reported total cost: $4,500,000. That made six California newspapers picked up by the Ridders in 3½ years, giving them a monopoly not only in Pasadena but also in Long Beach and San Jose...
...radio stations and two TV stations. "This expansion will stop," said a Ridder employee last week, "when you run out of Ridder boys." The eight Ridder grandsons-who all help to run the papers, have already sired a dozen sons of their own. To help strangers sort out the clan, grandson Herman H., 47, president of the company, carries an oversized business card with a family tree diagrammed neatly on the back...