Word: heir
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Died. Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, 87, widow of the West Coast sugar heir, and art patroness, who gave San Francisco one of its finest museums; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. Inspired by Paris' Palace of the Legion of Honor, Mrs. Spreckels built her own $4,000,000 Legion of Honor art museum in 1924 and stocked it with one of the largest collections of Rodins outside France...
Spoken references to that unfilmed past which set up the plot premise provide an idea both of Chabrol's pragmatism and the point at which his imagination begins to make connections and build strange relationships between the characters: Paul is the legitimate heir to the Wagner champagne firm, an old and fabulously respected French wine. His father was swindled out of ownership by a man whose daughter Christine (Yvonne Furneaux) now runs the company. Paul has only rights to the name Wagner, this preventing Christine from selling the company to crass American industrialists who won't buy the firm without...
Walter Beinecke Jr., 50, heir to a sizable chunk of his family's Sperry & Hutchison Green Stamp fortune and a successful real estate developer and cattle rancher in his own right, thinks he has a solution for old Nantucket's people problems. Beinecke's idea is to "trade up" the island by finding fewer people who will spend more money. "Instead of selling six postcards and two hot dogs," he says, "you have to sell a hotel room and a couple of sports coats...
...heir could not agree more, which is why he is "trading up" the island from those who save Green Stamps to those who do not have...
Born. To Huntingdon Hartford, 57, A. & P. heir, and Diane Hartford, 26, his third wife, a willowy ex-model he married in 1962: a girl, their first child; in Manhattan...