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...Upjohn family of Kalamazoo, Mich., a close-knit and closemouthed clan, made an estimated $283 million last year, from a rise in its holdings in drug-producing Upjohn Co. to $659 million. Company officials will not confirm these figures; they say only that five family members-who do not constitute the entire family-control about 1.5 million shares. The price of these shares alone increased by $83 million in 1972, to $192 million. The company is headed by three husbands of granddaughters of Founder W.E. Upjohn. They are Chairman Ray T. Par-fet Jr., 50; President Robert M. Boude...
...Caesar. This was the Brando who in the 1950s struck one of the keynotes of a generation with his romantic outlaw swagger, who influenced a whole school of cooler, more introspective actors like James Dean, Paul Newman and Montgomery Clift, and whose blue-jeaned, motorcycle-riding contempt for the clan rituals of Hollywood signaled the end of the star system as it had flourished till then...
Died. Margaret Webster, 67, Shakespearean director and last member of one of Britain's most famous theatrical families; of cancer; in London. Descended from a 19th century clan of classical actors and the daughter of Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty, Webster served her own apprenticeship as a performer on the London stage during the '20s. She found her métier, however, as a Broadway director more than a decade later, and her major triumphs of the '30s and '40s (Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) made Shakespeare a New York box office success...
...than Bell's style is his detachment, a quality that he certainly did not inherit. The Stephen family was part of the intellectual wing of Britain's upper middle class; Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a famous essayist and man of letters. Altogether, they were an excitable clan, idealistic, moralistic, painfully interdependent, swept along by unrecognized currents of passionate attraction that stopped just short of incest...
...author calls "second stringers." Only one man among them Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, seemed to be cast directly from the Johnson-Connally mold. And even Barnes, despite being more clever and more personable than his fellow legislators, had his political fortunes spoiled by his association with the Smith-Mutscher clan...