Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Tyrone Power, cinemactor, 44; of a heart attack suffered on the set of United Artists' Solomon and Sheba, following a strenuous duel scene in which Power (King Solomon) was supposed to kill Actor George Sanders (Adonijah); in Madrid. The son and great-grandson of actors of the same name, Tyrone Power first learned his craft on the stage. Signed to a Fox contract in 1936, he was the cinema's top moneymaking star two years later, stacking up a list of credits that eventually included Jesse James, The Rains Came, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castile...
...first husband was Lawyer William V. O'Connor, now California deputy attorney general. Her second, who divorced her last June on charges of adultery, was Earl Beatty, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Prince Marshall Field, son of the late Baron Beatty of the North Sea, Admiral of the Fleet and dashing hero of Jutland, who is famed for his remark to a flag officer, after seeing two of his cruisers go down: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
Brightest earnings of all were reported by Chicago's Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., which started out as a manufacturer of pool tables and later bowling alleys. It has diversified under President B. E. ("Ted") Bensinger, great-grandson of John M. Brunswick, the Swiss immigrant cabinetmaker who founded the company...
...Mary Gindhart Roebling, 52, was elected as a public governor of the American Stock Exchange, the first woman to reach a major exchange's top policymaking board. Widow of Siegfried Roebling (grandson of the Brooklyn Bridge builder), Mary Roebling took over her husband's job as director of the Trenton Trust Co. in 1936, became president a year later, is now both president and chairman. In her reign, the bank's assets have swelled from $17 million to more than $90 million...
...merger joins two of the nation's oldest store chains. Hecht was founded as a furniture store in east Baltimore in 1857 by Immigrant Peddler Samuel Hecht, four of whose five sons later entered the business (present Chairman Hecht is a grandson). May Co. got its start in 1878 in Leadville. Colo., a mining boom town where David May, a 26-year-old German immigrant, founded a clothing store. David May spread his stores through the Midwest, and his son Morton J. May, Buster May's father and the chairman of May Co., expanded the chain coast...