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...firm for being too tight-lipped. Attorneys for the company, Jackson National Insurance, argued in a federal appeals court Monday that it was not legally obligated to tell her husband that blood tests had revealed he was infected with the AIDS virus. In 1988, Jackson National denied attorney Frank Deramus's application to increase his life insurance because of the HIV-positive results, but refused his requests to tell him why. The insurance company did not release the information until June 1991, nine days before 51-year-old Deramus died from AIDS-related complications. Jody Deramus...
Finalists in the four categories were Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal and Rick Nichols of The Philadelphia Inquirer for editorial writing; Betty DeRamus of the Detroit News and Paul Gigot of The Wall Street Journal for commentary column writing; Rose Jacobius of The Washington Post and Beth Witrogen of the San Francisco Examiner for headlines; and Craig Dezern of The Orlando Sentinel and Hank Stuever of The Albuquerque Tribune for non deadline writing...
Died. William Neal Deramus, 77, chairman of the Kansas City Southern Railway, who started out as a kerosene lamplighter at 14, held every job from telegrapher to chief dispatcher until he became president of the 1,647-mile road in 1941, thereafter earning a reputation as one of the more successful leaders of a generally depressed industry by increasing freight and diversifying into moneymaking sidelines; of pneumonia; in Kansas City...
...William N. Deramus III, 45, former president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, takes over from his 73-year-old father as president of Kansas City Southern Railway. In his four years at the debt-racked Katy, hard-bitten "Young Bill" alienated local affection by reducing employment, skimping on maintenance. At K.C.S. he will find that Father Deramus has the line in such good shape that it earned $3,400,000 for 1961's first eight months...
...replacement for Young Bill, Katy turned to Charles T. Williams, 51, the line's executive vice president, who is expected to continue young Deramus' ruthless cost cutting...