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Watch Those Eggs. The man appointed by fate, birth and the close councils of the family to lead Du Pont is a shy introvert named Lammot du Pont Copeland. A great-great-grandson of Founder Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, Copeland, 59, shows many of the family characteristics. He lives in a baronial style that has almost disappeared from the U.S., yet works in an unpretentious office whose door bears neither his name nor title. From his late mother and her three brothers-Pierre, Irenee and Lammot du Pont-he inherited not only a prominent nose and poor hearing...
Divorced. William du Pont Jr., 67, Maryland country squire, great-great-grandson of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont and one of ten of his descendants on the board of the family chemicals empire; by Margaret Osborne du Pont, 43, three times (1948-50) U.S. Women's singles tennis champion, 13 times winner in the doubles; on grounds of mental cruelty; after 16 years of marriage, one son; in Las Vegas...
Revolution-minded, some 40 faithful set out from the Soviet embassy in Washington to visit Early American landmarks, stopping at Fredericksburg, Va., for a look at the law office occupied in the late 1780s by President James Monroe. Unrest became apparent when Laurence G. Hoes, 63, great-great-grandson of Monroe, pressed a copy of the Monroe Doctrine on Russian Counselor Igor Kolosovski, 42. "Give this to Premier Khrushchev," suggested Hoes, "and tell him the Monroe Doctrine is very much alive." Nyet, snorted Kolosovski, "a dead document." Immediately followed a Cossack chorus of "dead document, dead document," until...
Died. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, 86, Yale's great teacher of English literature (among his students: Stephen Vincent Benet, Sinclair Lewis, Archibald MacLeish. Thornton Wilder) and the university's keeper of rare books, world-renowned for his 1925 discovery of a supposedly destroyed collection of Boswell papers; of a stroke; in Hartford, Conn. Tink's literary sleuthing uncovered the papers in Ireland's Malahide Castle, but he was unable to persuade Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson, to part with the vast trove. It remained for Lieut...
...crept within 2,000 of its parent's 166,000 morning circulation. Besides, Tidende is not just a newspaper. It is a mirror into which the Dane looks each day to see himself. "Tidende is an absolutely decent paper," says Dr. Vincent Naeser, principal stockholder and great-great-grandson of Ernst Berling. "It reflects the Danish mind. It smiles when it speaks...