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...able father, passed the prestige and tradition and responsibility, if not the immediate wealth of the Curtis-Bok family. But when for the first time since his succession Curtis Bok stepped into the limelight to perform an important act of public service, it was not as the scion of the rulers of a huge publishing empire but as a stubbornly independent individual doing what he considered his independent duty...
These young men, still in their twenties and early thirties, can do little to carry on the continuity of the firm's experience. Today that continuity rests more upon non-family members. One of them is Sir William Wiseman (loth scion of a Baronetcy founded in 1628) who came to the U. S. as chief of the British Military Intelligence during the War, became intimate with Col. House, served as British adviser at Versailles. He has been with K. L. since 1921 although only made a partner four years ago. Another is George Wallace Bovenizer (a partner since...
...unsolved death of Zachary Smith Reynolds, Camel cigaret scion (TIME, July 18): agreement between the Reynolds family, his second wife Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds and his first wife Anne Cannon Reynolds, towel heiress, awarding $2,000,000 each to his two children, Libby Reynolds' son Zachary Smith Jr. and Anne Cannon Reynolds...
When more Louisiana petitions kept arriving this week in the Senate, it became clear that Citizen Parker was in deadly earnest. And when John Parker is in earnest he can fight, even at 70. A slim, wiry, suntanned Louisiana aristocrat, scion of wealthy Mississippi planters, one of the South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local...
...animals are part of a memorial gate to the late Paul James Rainey, famed big game hunter. Cleveland coal & coke scion (TIME, Oct. i, 1923). Rainey was the first to hunt African lions with dog packs, the first to make a wild animal cinema (1912). In 1925 the Rainey family offered the Bronx Zoo a huge (35 ft. high, 42 ft. wide) bronze double gate as a memorial to Paul, commissioned Manship to design...