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...convention in 86-proof Miami that "the liquor industry is worried about us." "She has the most fantastic figure since Venus de Milo - absolutely perfect," recalled one disarmed Hollywood gent who retains fond memories of French Actress Agnes Laurent, 26, although she once bopped him. Not so for Cinema Scion Arthur Loew Jr., 35, who was rushed to the emergency room of the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital to have nine stitches taken in his profile after the quick-firing actress slung a snifter of brandy at him during a similar tantrum at a Hollywood restaurant "because Arthur kept needling...
...audience: "There goes the ball game." In one striking respect, Hughes does resemble his rivals for John Kennedy's old Senate seat, Democrats Teddy Kennedy and Eddie McCormack, and Republican George Cabot Lodge, son of Richard Nixon's 1960 running mate. Hughes, too, is a scion; his father was once U.S. Solicitor General, and his grandfather was Charles Evans Hughes, onetime Secretary of State and Chief Justice...
...worth of them below cost and set out to restock with better goods. But to do so, he desperately needed an experienced soft-goods buyer. He ran through four merchandising managers in three years until last year he hooked boyish-looking Jack Schwadron, 36, the whip-smart scion of a family that helped to found New York's Alexander's cut-rate department stores (in which Korvette's has a 43% voting interest). Schwadron knows soft goods. More important, he knows the men who sell them...
Died. William Curtis Bok, 64, longtime Pennsylvania jurist elected to a 21-year term on the state Supreme Court in 1958, a liberal, civic-minded Quaker who, as a scion of the Curtis and Bok publishing dynasty, was considered something of a renegade by his Main Line neighbors because of his New Deal politics; after a long illness; in Philadelphia's suburban Radnor. By his death, Bok, as one of five Curtis trustees, held up the possibility (strongly rumored, but unconfirmed) that Doubleday & Co. was about to buy into the Philadelphia-based magazine empire, in the red last year...
...Compton, 69, brilliant pioneer of modern physics and, as wartime director of the University of Chicago's innocuously titled Metallurgical Laboratory, a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb, Chancellor of St. Louis' Washington University (1945-53); of a stroke; in Berkeley, Calif. An unpretentious scion of one of America's distinguished intellectual families,* Ohio-born Arthur Compton made his scientific debut at ten with a treatise on elephants' toes, won the Nobel Prize (together with Britain's Charles T.R. Wilson) at 35 with the discovery that X rays are composed of particles...