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...there are the families whose illustrious names mix business and politics-three generations of Rockefellers, from old Millionaire John D. Sr. to New York's Governor Nelson; the Kennedys, from Joseph P. back in his 1935 Wall Street-regulating days to Jack and Bobby in 1960; the Edisons, Inventor Thomas A. and his New Jersey Governor son, Charles. In strictly business dynasties, the record is held by the Fords, who altogether have provided six TIME covers...
Grow or Die. AMF's expansion is the work of slow-spoken, low-pressured Chairman Morehead Patterson, 64, who took over the company in 1943 from his father Rufus L. Patterson, inventor of the first automated tobacco machine. After World War II, Morehead Patterson decided that the company had to grow or die. Searching for new products, he turned up a crude prototype of an automatic bowling-pm setter. To get the necessary cash to develop the intricate gadget, Patterson swapped off AMF stock to acquire eight small companies with fast-selling products. The Pinspotter, perfected...
...Kerr calls her home, is both the sum and summary of its contents, a brick and half-timber Tudor-Spanish architectural error on the edge of Long Island Sound. Like the Kerrs, it sits squarely in the suburbs, but its outlines are in fairyland. Built by a rich automotive inventor on the original foundations of the Larchmont Shore Club stables, it looks like the Castle of Otranto, reaching high with turrets and towers and a cupola. It also looks as easy to clean as the lower Bowery, and Mrs. Kerr moans that a Cunard liner could run back and forth...
Died. Alfred Carlton Gilbert, 76, toy inventor and manufacturer who convinced millions of parents that a boy's best friend is his Erector set and who himself lived a real life of fun and games as Olympic pole vaulter and big-game hunter; of a heart attack; in Boston (see BUSINESS...
...part of the public wants to know facts about diet and health, and a big group of U.S. scientists wants to supply them. The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K (for Keys) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well and Stay Well. From his birch-paneled office in the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, under the university's football stadium in Minneapolis ("We get a rumble on every touchdown"), blocky, grey-haired Dr. Keys directs an ambitious...