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Back at Squaw Valley, long-suffering Managing Director H. D. Thoreau (a great-grandnephew of the Walden Pond naturalist) said with a sigh that 80% of the female competitors will be housed in pairs, the rest three to a room. Said he: "In other Olympics, I've heard of competitors being billeted in schools and dormitories." What was more, while each country paid its own transportation and housing in previous Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley is laying out a subsidy of $500 per competitor...
James Stillman Rockefeller, 57, president of First National City Bank of New York, was appointed chairman of the board succeeding Howard C. Sheperd, who retires Nov. 1 at 65. A grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller Sr. and second cousin of New York's Governor, the new chairman bosses the nation's third largest bank (first: Bank of America, second: Chase Manhattan). A grandson of James Stillman, president of National City from 1891 to 1909, Rockefeller captained Yale's 1924 crew, spurred it to victory in that year's Olympic Games. Married in 1925 to a grandniece...
...complaint was Crane's first-quarter earnings (23? per share v. 21? last year), which did not show the strong comeback from the recession of Crane's chief competitors. Mrs. Chadbourne decided to back Evans and Landa with her 120,759 shares, and they agreed to put Grandnephew Robert Crane on the board...
...their relatives. In fact, the Chattanooga Daily Times can claim to be the parent of its massive stablemate: Ochs was publisher and owner of the Daily Times when he bought the New York Times in 1896 for $75,000. The Daily Times editor, Martin Ochs, 34, is his grandnephew; Publisher Golden is the son-in-law of Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, who in turn, is a son-in-law of the patriarch...
...boards of the Banco di Roma, and pharmaceutical, shipping and piping companies. In 1946 the Central American Republic of Costa Rica appointed him envoy to the Vatican State, upgraded him to ambassador ten years later. Another papal relative is also a diplomat at the Vatican: Count Stanislao Pecci, grandnephew of Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta...