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...scion of a wealthy Baltimore brokerage family, Woodville showed his precocious talent at the tender age of eleven in a small but accomplished watercolor portraying a dying general. Properly educated, he studied anatomy at medical school for a year, then set off to train in Germany when he was 20. There, in Dusseldorf, he learned the romantic lighting and theatrical staging then in vogue, techniques that worked as well on U.S. local color as on Rhine landscapes. Though he lived abroad for most of the brief ten years before he died at 30, his fondest subjects remained the Eastern Shore...
Died. Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 59, scion of Germany's Krupp empire (see WORLD BUSINESS...
...Khan and his uncle, Sadruddin, have the back and side windows of their Mini-Coopers done in inky black. So do Greek Snipping Scion Alex Goulandris, Actor Albert Finney and Beatle George Harrison. Fellow Beatle John Lennon's Rolls is completely blacked out except for the windshield-despite the impairment to vision. So is Prince Philip's experimental Ogle sports...
Consider David's first run-in with nasty white duplicity. At Pengard, an "integrated" Midwestern college, David manfully rejects the homosexual advances of Randy Clevenger, Virginia-born scion of "Southrun" aristocracy. Before anybody can say "tea and sodomy," David himself has been accused of perversion by the effete Dean of Men, whose name, for Pete's sake, is Merriweather Goodhue. Only by the intervention of a tough but noble leader named "Bull" Evans does the poor kid clear himself. Evans simply hires a private eye to prove that Dean Goodhue and Clevenger have been in, well, cahoots...
...Barings help to bankroll such clients as Britain's Courtaulds textile empire and the government of Portugal. Merchant bankers are the business world's greatest merger brokers and proxy fighters. Nobody profits more from this than London's Siegmund Warburg, German-born dollar scion of the 400-year-old banking clan, who in 1958-59 counseled Reynolds Metals in its successful fight with Alcoa for control of British Aluminium Ltd. So highly is Warburg's advice valued that he is retained simultaneously by Britain's two leading press tycoons, Cecil King and Roy Thomson...