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DIED. Ed Fitzgerald, 89, chatty, erudite radio veteran who teamed with his wife Pegeen 43 years ago to start one of the first husband-and-wife radio talk programs; in New York City. The Fitzgeralds gave their audience a daily dose of soap opera vérité, ranging from family spats to discussions of cats, Fitzgerald's failing health and news events, all of it laced with low-key gossip, Shakespearean quotations and rambling reminiscences...
...RIT, which had suffered a 9-1 thrashing at the hands of Providence's Lady Friars, met an identical fate against Harvard in the consolation game. Right wing Liz Ward's wrist shot beat RIT goalie Lorri Tuohey just seven seconds into the game, and the Crimson giggled all the way home...
...disagreement was largely a matter of style. Discreet and conservative in its ways, the Rothschild bank is the epitome of bowler hat British banking. The Rothschild trust, known as RIT for short, is something of a swinger in world financial circles. Under Jacob's management, its assets have increased astronomically, from $14.3 million to $239 million since 1970, through investments in art galleries and auction houses, among others...
Disapproving of his cousin's business ways, Evelyn two weeks ago resigned from the board of the Rothschild Investment Trust and invoked a ten-year-old agreement that would force RIT to drop the family's name. Says Evelyn: "I don't want to sound staid and toffee nosed, but in the banking business, a name is terribly important...
...from the N.M. Rothschild bank, but Evelyn turned down that suggestion. Finally Jacob capitulated. Saying that he was sad that the "difference of opinion within the family" had become public, he resigned as a director of N.M. Rothschild and agreed to change his firm's name to RIT Ltd. However, he has put management of its assets into another organization called J. Rothschild and Co., meaning he will continue to display the family label...