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Healthy, wealthy, submersible Department Store Scion Peter R. Gimbel, 35, is wont to prowl around the ocean floor (he dived to the sunken Andrea Doria in 1956, again in 1957) when he is not busy with his career as an investment banker. Now rising above all that, young Gimbel joined a National Geographic Society expedition bound for the Peruvian Andes, early next month will parachute into the remote upper reaches (9,000-14,000 ft.) of the Vilcabamba range-an unmapped area never penetrated by outsiders and considered a possible site of early Inca civilization. Accompanying Gimbel on the three...
Caricature, Not Character. For all his crimes, Messkirch is a sympathetic character. Not so the chief character of The Birthday King, by British Novelist Gabriel Fielding. Ruprecht Weidmann is the scion of a wealthy manufacturing family that has a slight admixture of Jewish blood and is trying desperately to get into Hitler's good graces. A cold opportunist, Ruprecht commits his anti-Nazi brother to a concentration camp, drowns a companion, betrays a business associate who is plotting against Hitler, sends off a dozen of his factory workers to serve as medical guinea pigs. Ruprecht is a kind...
...were an estimated 5.7% of invested capital, compared with 6.7% a decade ago. While profit totals are running at record highs, the businessman is finding it harder to raise his percentage of profit on sales. Says Du Font's President Lammot du Pont Copeland, 58, a Harvard-educated scion of inherited wealth: "Keener competition may be good for the economy, but it takes its toll in profits...
...board member and mover of the new development fund is a handsome, curly-haired young man who symbolizes a new breed of Arab businessman. His name is Bader Almulla, 26, and he is the untraditional scion of Kuwait's traditional fam ily of hereditary wazirs (ministers of state). Bader believes that "the Arab world is rich beyond present dreams. Here in Kuwait alone we have the means to achieve miracles for the whole Arab world." Schooled in England, he spent seven prodigious years as Kuwait's Secretary of State before resigning 18 months ago to take over...
Michael Straight. 46, has always had more cash, conscience and energy than he knew quite what to do with. Scion of one of America's wealthiest families (his mother was Harry Payne Whitney's sister), he has for years managed the family fortune with one hand and with the other espoused an assortment of causes, mostly forlorn. For 13 years he was editor, publisher and underwriter of the New Republic Magazine. In 1956 he resigned and turned to fiction...