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Died. Lord Beaverbrook, 85, patriarch of London's Fleet Street; of a heart attack; in London (see PRESS...
...Curse of the Living Corpse, despite its air of amateur Grand Guignol, unreels with grisly assurance. The plot involves "a homicidal maniac-bent on revenge by the most horrible means possible." Though locked in the family vault, a late and unlamented patriarch seemingly wants to settle his estate heir by heir. One morning the hired girl comes up on the dumb-waiter head first. Head only, in fact. Subsequent victims are cruelly disfigured, dragged behind a horse, stabbed, burned alive, or drowned in the bath. In this orgy of supermarket sadism, the blood looks like Brand X catchup, but there...
Such deft maneuvers are the work of Lykes Chairman Solon B. Turman, 64, the son of Tillie Lykes, who joined her seven brothers in founding the line. A tough-minded patriarch, Turman started out as a young man shoveling manure on Lykes's boats when the line was still ferrying cattle between Cuba and Florida. Now, with 52 ships regularly calling at 156 ports in 68 nations, Lykes is the largest U.S. dry-cargo shipping line. Turman runs the company so well that it earned $8,400,000 last year on revenues of $65.9 million...
Heroes & Oddballs. The patriarch of the family was Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a French Huguenot who liked to kick around offbeat economic and political schemes with his great friend Thomas Jefferson. At least one of his notions paid off. Pierre is credited with swinging Jefferson over to the idea of making the Louisiana Purchase, which turned out to be good for business as well as the country...
...recites like a Greek chorus the ancient obligations to race and region. He had taught his sons to "fell a tree, sow, cultivate and harvest, save money, countersink a nail, make cider with a hand press, clean a gun, sail a boat, etc." But Leander was defeated in his patriarch's role when his ferryboat was beached by women and turned into a gift shoppe. Leander's two sons, Moses and Coverly, were expelled from the paradisial St. Botolphs, but in the case of Coverly (who doubles for Author Cheever), he never really left it or rejected...