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...house is unprepossessing, a small, white wooden frame structure in a quiet Salt Lake City suburb. The family patriarch, a stolid pressman of 41 with muttonchop whiskers, sits in his modest living room playing with two of his seven children. In the kitchen, three women are busy over several bushels of peaches. One woman is peeling the plump yellow fruit; another toils over the kettles simmering on the stove; a third pops peach halves into bottles. The tableau seems to be a Rockwellian slice of rural Americana, a pair of friendly neighbors helping a housewife put up peaches...
...managed by Sir Lew, ATV falls somewhere between a benevolent dictatorship and a family delicatessen. "There are two Lew Grades-the patriarch and the businessman," says one of his executives. "Ask for ?500 because of some personal crisis, and it's yours. Ask for ?500 extra on a budget-not a chance." Grade chooses new programs largely on instinct. His motto: "My tastes are the average person's tastes." After he approves a project-something he often does on the basis of a one-page description-he maintains that his creative staffers have a completely free hand. "Then...
...ever seriously thought of doing anything else but go into his father's business. Such an attitude was a sign of love and loyalty that undoubtedly pleased Joe Bonanno as much as his son's marriage to Rosalie Profaci, a daughter of the Brooklyn Mafia family whose patriarch, Joseph Profaci, provided Novelist Mario Puzo with a model for the "Godfather." Still, the strain of serving the old while being conditioned by the new showed in obvious and dramatic ways. Young Bill, reports Talese, had an ulcer at 15. As he grew up, his temper became shorter and more...
...elegant White House dinner held on Labor Day last year, the President of the United States rose to offer a toast. Lifting his champagne glass in the direction of the rumpled patriarch seated to his right, Richard Nixon paid tribute to "a distinguished labor statesman, a man who stands for the best in free labor and for the best of America." Flushed with presidential praise, George Meany, leader of the giant, 13.5 million-member A.F.L.-C.I.O., responded with words of glowing admiration for Nixon as a leader "dedicated to the same ideal and the same end" as U.S. labor...
Died. Lord Astor of Hever, 85, patriarch of the Astor family's British branch, and between 1922 and 1959 publisher of the London Times; of heart disease; in Cannes, France. A great-great-grandson of the American fur trader who founded the family fortune, John Jacob Astor V began his 23-year career in the House of Commons in 1922, the same year he bought control of the Times. Elevated to the peerage in 1956, he eventually left Britain to escape heavy death duties...