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Died. James Madison Kemper, 70, retired board chairman of the Commerce Trust Co., Kansas City's largest bank, and the most aggressive member of the banking Kemper family who, with holdings estimated at $100 million, have dominated the financial life of Missouri and Kansas for more than 40 years (one brother controls the City National Bank & Trust of Kansas City, the other the huge Kemper Investment Co. and a host of smaller banks), himself a bank president at 31, responsible for much of Kansas City's road building, slum clearance and downtown business renewal; by his own hand...
...Kansas City one day six months ago, Mrs. Cynthia ("Cindy") Kemper, 35, the indefatigable, vivacious wife of Millionaire Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., decided that it was high time "to take a good look at ourselves." So she called together a group of friends to talk about it. Diagnosis: "We are not a jumping-off-place for the West but a thoroughly civilized 20th century community with all kinds of people and all kinds of possibilities." Remedy: "Kansas City needs to feel the pride of creation...
Despite these efforts, the casualty insurance industry remains on shaky ground. "Investment has saved the bacon for everybody," says James Kemper Jr., president of Chicago's Kemper insurance group. "If we were in the investment climate of the 1950s or had a market break like 1962's, a lot of us would be in trouble." Kemper has taken over three faltering casualty companies in the past 15 months because he believes that there is strength in consolidation, but he makes a gloomy prognosis: increasing casualties among the casualty companies...
Ribicoff's effort nonetheless got some warm response. Andover's Headmaster John M. Kemper, whose own rich school would hardly benefit, supported Ribicoff because "the problem is to get all the kids well taught regardless of the type of school." The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which runs the nation's second-biggest parochial school system, noted that it already supports tax deductions for part of the tuition at church-supported schools...
DANNY KAYE KAUFMAN T. KELLER JOHN M. KEMPER EDWARD KENNEDY STEPHEN P. KENNEDY GEORGE C. KENNEY CLARK KERR JEAN KERR ANCEL KEYS ROBERT E. KINTNER JACK KRAMER