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Hawaii's political season was in full flower last week. The race that is attracting the most interest: the contest to succeed U.S. Senator Oren E. Long, 73, a Democrat who is retiring. The opponents: Dillingham, 46, the scion of Hawaii's most prominent haole (white) family, and Democratic Representative Daniel Ken Inouye, 38, the first U.S. Congressman of Japanese descent...
...chance. Teddy won every ward in Boston, supposedly McCormack's bastion. He even carried Eddie's home precinct in Dorchester, 317-304. By the size and scope of his victory, Kennedy became an early-book favorite for November over Republican Nominee George Cabot Lodge, 35, another smiling scion of another famous Massachusetts family...
Just four months later, Durie became engaged to Firmin Desloge IV, scion of an old, wealthy Roman Catholic family in St. Louis. They were married on Jan. 2, 1939, at the winter home of her parents in Palm Beach. After a Nassau honeymoon, they lived in St. Louis for eight years, had one child, also named Durie...
Most of those who militate in Tacuara (average age: 17) are the fanatic children of families that lost their wealth during and after Peron. Tacuara Leader Ezcurra Uriburu, scion of a once-proud family, works days as a paint sprayer in a motorcycle repair shop and blames the Jews for the country's problems. "We are against a society permeated and dominated by Jews," he says...
...giant (1961 sales: $1.4 billion) Philips Lamp, is proud that members of his family now own less than 1% of the stock. "If the stockholders decide I am doing a bad job," says Philips, "I go." And in Germany, where hired managers have traditionally been regarded with distrust, Steel Scion Alfried Krupp has given unprecedented authority to his general manager, Berthold Beitz. Among old-line Krupp executives, Beitz's breezy manner has won him the not entirely complimentary nickname der Amerikaner, but he has succeeded in diversifying the company from purely heavy industry into trading and construction...