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Bernard Feustman Gimbel was in the third generation of a merchandising family already well established and wealthy when he entered the business in 1907. He was therefore inevitably tab-loided as "the Merchant Prince." The condescending title never fitted the round-faced ruler of New York's Gree ley Square. In the 34 years he spent on the throne, first as president of Gimbel Bros., Inc., and later as chairman, Gimbel personally changed the family firm into an empire that this year will sell $600 million worth of merchandise in 27 Gimbels stores and 27 swankier Saks Fifth Avenue...
...Peter Grace Jr., 53, is a grandson of the Irish-born chandler and trader who, in 1854, founded W. R. Grace & Co., first as a merchant shipper, later as a holder of huge Latin American in terests. Mrs. Lorraine Mulberger, 52, is a granddaughter of the German-born brewmaster who, in 1855, cooked up Miller High Life, one of the beers that have made Milwaukee famous. Last week Grace and Mrs. Mulberger agreed on a big business deal: for $36 million, Grace bought the 53% controlling in terest owned by Mrs. Mulberger and members of her immediate family...
Bursting Talents. Born in Oakland, Calif., Phillips graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1943, became a merchant seaman during World War II. After the war, his talents as a promoter burst upon the archaeological world. At 26, with backing from Nimitz, President Robert Sproul of the University of California, Prime Minister Jan Smuts of South Africa and others, he organized and led a mammoth archaeological expedition from Cairo to the Cape. He established his own grandly named American Foundation for the Study of Man and led further expeditions into Sinai, Aden and Yemen...
...Will Bring Evil." The supreme irony of it all is that Verwoerd's assassin apparently thought so too. Dimitrio Tsafendas had been a drifter who hated the world. He speaks eight languages, has traveled all over the world as a merchant seaman-and has been confined in mental hospitals in both the U.S. and Portugal. He is also a religious fanatic who has dabbled in Buddhism, read the Bible, and often quotes his favorite passage from II Kings: "Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof...
...heyday, "Lee Hig" was one of the kingpins of finance both in the U.S. and abroad. Set up in 1848 in a tiny State Street office by Lawyer John Clarke Lee and his cousin, Boston Merchant George Higginson, Lee Higginson over the years financed the development of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and other Western railroads, built several Boston fortunes by developing the fabulous Calumet & Hecla Copper Mine in Michigan. The firm helped put together General Electric in 1892, led the financing of the struggling General Motors...