Word: patriarchates
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...full name was William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, but to 1.5 million Liberians he was simply "Old Daddy." As President for 27 years of the Ohio-size West African rubber republic, he was the oldest, established, permanent, doting, elected patriarch on the continent. Indeed, so popular was Old Daddy with his subjects that the only thing that could oust him from office was death. The ouster came last week, when the 75-year-old President succumbed to complications following a prostate-gland operation in a London hospital...
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...
...Died. Prince Franz Joseph Maria La-moral, 78, who as Duke of Thurn and Taxis was Germany's wealthiest nobleman and the patriarch of one of Europe's oldest families; of a heart attack; in Regensburg, West Germany. The godson of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef and titular head of the clan that introduced the international postal system to Europe in the 16th century, the prince presided over a billion-dollar financial empire that includes Germany's third biggest private bank and vast stretches of latifundia in Bavaria, Canada and Brazil. One of the last Continental nobles...
Hazlett Upson celebrates The Return of Alexander Bolts and his continuing correspondence with the brass at the Earthworm Tractor Company. The bust of Post Patriarch Benjamin Franklin is, of course, prominently displayed...
Married. Serge Obolensky, 80, the Russian prince who became a U.S.-based patriarch of the international jet set; and Marilyn Fraser Wall, 44, a Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., millionairess; she for the second time, he for the third (his marriages to the daughters of Czar Alexander II and John Jacob Astor ended in divorce); in Arlington...