Word: irs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he owns the nation's largest newspaper empire,* Samuel Ir Newhouse, 69, is often criticized as a crass financier whose only concern is his profit, who has done little to improve the quality of his often mediocre papers. But at Syracuse University last week, Press Lord Newhouse (TIME cover, July 27, 1962) drew himself up to his full 5 ft. 3 in. and watched as President Johnson inaugurated a handsome new building that will testify to Sam Newhouse's concern for quality in the press long after his critics' cries have faded...
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...
Pierre's son Eleuthère Irénée was the first business brains of the family. He saw the need for good black powder for the huntsmen and the frontiersmen of the young and struggling U.S., and in 1802 set up his factory on the Brandywine; later he added a woolen mill. From those modest beginnings sprang the $3.3 billion empire that today spans much of the world with 117 factories employing 93,000 workers turning out 1,200 products. It has become the greatest chemical company in the world's history, a company that...
Among the living was his enceinte fian cee, Irène Jodart. "I shall marry him anyway!" proclaimed Ir...
...Your [Oct. 4] article on Litton's "Tex" Thornton certainly symbolized the good that evolves from a government ir which men have the freedom to pursue new ideas. The story helped to impress upon me the fact that there are opportunities available in this country to all who wish to make the effort...