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...like his physician nephew Richard, who advises Governor Ronald Reagan on medical affairs...
...Baltimore suburb of Owings Mills, established 56 years ago by first generation Joseph and Nathan Shapiro. Although the firm went public six years ago, Shapiros still own 65% of the stock and dominate its board with ten of twelve family members, headed by Joseph, 79, as chairman and Nephew Arthur H., 57, as president. In what amounts to a neat feat for nepotism, Maryland Cup has quadrupled sales in a decade, this year expects to top $100 million for the first time...
...General Omar N. Bradley, 74, who was brought into the company in 1953 by Arde Bulova, son of the Czechoslovak immigrant who founded Bulova as a small Manhattan jewelry shop in 1874. When Arde died in 1958, Bradley succeeded him as chairman. The following year, Arde's nephew, Harry Bulova Henshel, now 48, became president. Bradley brought to the manufacturing-oriented company much-needed organizational skills, laid the structural groundwork for expansion. As for Henshel, his immediate task was to streamline marketing, crack down on jewelers selling Bulovas at less than fair-trade prices...
James Purdy has achieved a considerable literary reputation for his precisely chiseled prose style and gallows humor (Malcolm, The Nephew, 63: Dream Palace). His talent does not flag here, despite his choice of subject. But Eustace Chisholm is not unlike certain surrealistic paintings in its rather surprising lack of effect: though an atmosphere is evoked in sharp and crystalline terms and though figures are intensely and skillfully rendered, the reader remains unmoved. Fortunately, most men do not live in a neo-Gothic neverland where the entire range of human experience is dominated by a single obsession. Life is at once...
...Majesty's Service, an experience that he soon finds simply SMERSHing. Along the way he encounters Joanna Pettet, the byproduct of his illicit union with Mata Hari; Peter Sellers, a green-gilled card shark who impersonates James Bond; Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond, James's narky nephew; and the ubiquitous Ursula Andress, who has become to spy spoofs what pits are to olives: tasteless, but unavoidable...