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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 (he sometimes...
...Skin a Rabbit. Almost alone among the chiefs of billion-dollar corporations, most of whom come from middle-class backgrounds, the man who has inherited this tradition was born to great wealth. Mother Copeland was a millionairess, father was a high officer of Du Pont for 40 years, and Lammot Copeland's playmates were mostly his moneyed cousins. From the start, he showed a flair for discovering short cuts. At ten, he entered a family contest in biology in which the little Du Ponts competed to be the first to find and assemble from the Delaware countryside the bones...
...pleasure in delivering good news to his stockholders-and the opportunity has rarely been better. Last week, in the largest concentration of the year, more than 100 U.S. companies held their annual meetings. The reports were overwhelmingly bullish, and many corporate chiefs echoed the forecast of Du Pont Chairman Lammot du Pont Copeland: "Our sales for 1964 will reach a record...
...Lammot duPont Copeland '28 has promised the University a total of $1.5 million for the study of world population problems. Copeland is president of E. I. duPont de Nemours...
...Pont, 86, one of the world's wealthiest men (estimated empire: $400 million), longtime president and vice chairman (1919-40) of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., world's largest chemicals company, a great-grandson of the founder, who with his late brothers, Pierre S. and Lammot, presided over the company's expansion during and after World War I from munitions manufacturing into paints, plastics, rayon and cellophane, plus a 23% stock interest in General Motors, worth some $3 billion when federal trustbusters finally forced divestiture last year; after a long illness; in Wilmington...