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...behind Lonrho's restless expansion is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 46, a 180-lb. six-footer who began his career as a porter in a London railway station, emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and built a fortune from a Mercedes franchise and mineral speculation. In 1961 he traded his motor and mining assets for 30% of the stock of Lonrho, became a joint managing director with Chairman Alan Ball. Ever since, he has been flying around Africa in a twin-engine Beechcraft, persuading the established and emerging nations to do business with Lonrho, acquiring such diverse enterprises...
Sensitivity & Smiles. Rowland's continent-sized expansion of Lonrho has created the inevitable comparisons between him and Empire Builder Rhodes, whose goal it was to bring all Africa under British domination. Although he is an admirer of Rhodes, Rowland makes it clear to Africa's sensitive new leaders that he craves only a business empire. "I'm not at all interested in politics," he says, "only in doing business." He has associated himself with Black Africa's economic aspirations, underwritten nationalistic-development schemes. During Malawi's independence celebrations last July, Rowland smiled tolerantly from...
...cast by Jack Straus's forebears. Straus is descended from a line of German-Jewish traders who at the turn of the century paid $1,645,000 to buy Macy's, a thriving store that had been founded in 1858 by a onetime Yankee whaler named Rowland Hussey Macy. Straus's grandfather Isidor was a legendary merchant who started Macy's on its road to fame, later went down with the Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were still aboard. Jack's father, Jesse Isidor, spread Macy...
...Olney Rowland Croasdale Jr. '65, of Winthrop House and Daylesford, Pa., will captain next year's varsity track team. The premier weightman on this year's squad. Croasdale succeeds middle distance runner Ed Meehan...
...world in which men do command the center of the stage. The world is Southern: planting, shooting, politics. The narrator is Abigail Mason, a divorced heiress, who tells of her grandfather and her husband, two hard men who did not like each other. The grandfather, William Rowland, lives as he pleases on vast timberlands owned by his ancestors since the War of 1812. He pleases, as it turns out, to take a Negro mistress after his wife's death and fathers several children...