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Winthrop: Charles E. Balfour, III, Christopher W. Beal, E. Wayles Brown, III, Johann Frelenmuth von Helms, Glen J. Hopkins, Jr., Daniel H. Jacoby, Christopher F. McKee, Stephen D. Marcus, Christopher C. Schwabacher, Steven James Sherman, Stevenson H. Swigart...
European finance. Jacob, 70, a reticent bachelor, stays in Stockholm to mind the home office, while robust and gregarious Marcus, 63, jets around the world to check on Wallenberg projects and find new investment opportunities. Though they hold the chairmanship of 27 companies, the brothers prefer to own no more than 5% or 10% of any company. They really do not need more, for most Swedish companies are only too ready to submit to Wallenberg management; they know that it means expert guidance and money for expansion. Says Marcus coolly: "It so happens that the companies we have been concerned...
Yachts & Tennis. Despite their great wealth, both brothers live unostentatiously. Jacob drives himself to his office in a middle-class Opel; Marcus has a Buick and usually does the driving-but he has a chauffeur to answer the car's radiotelephone. An expert yachtsman, Jacob skippered his 59.4-ft. yawl Refanut to victory in last year's 350-mile Baltic race. Marcus was Sweden's tennis champion in the 1920s and is still an expert player; he also excels at pingpong...
Neither brother ever misses an opportunity to downplay himself. Says Jacob, who is chairman of 13 companies: "The only reason I'm on so many boards is that I've been around so long." Marcus is even more self-effacing: "I am nothing," he says, "but a hyphen between generations." In one sense, he is right. His son Marc, 38, has already taken over the presidency of the Enskilda Bank, and is being groomed to be the next head of the clan...
Christopher W. Beal '63 of Winthrop House and Winchester; Jeffrey P. Eicholz '63 of Adams House and New York City; Leon I. Jacobson '63 of Quincy House and Belmont; Stephen D. Marcus '63 of Winthrop House and Chicago; Andrew J. Nathan '63 of Lowell House and Pound Ridge, New York; David R. Riggs, Jr. '63 of Claverly and Gladwyne, Pennsylvania; Norman E. Thruston '63 of Eliot House and Exeter, N.H.; and Edwin A. Winckler '63 of Dudley House and Ingomar...