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...year-old Prime Minister Sean Le-mass announced his reluctant conclu sion that "responsibility should now pass to a younger man." The next day in the same smoky conference room, the 71 members of Lemass' Fianna Fail Party selected their new Prime Minister and Taoiseach (leader of the clan): former Finance Minister John Mary Lynch...
MAME. Every family has its black sheep but few have a renegade as racy as the tante terrible of the Dennis clan. The staging of this musical is sensational, the performances professional. The music, however, is distinguished only by its volume...
...dynastic Hambro family, the world's biggest merchant bankers, started their moneymaking art two centuries ago, when a Hambro sea captain got word that the Queen of Denmark had died in Paris; he promptly cornered the market for crape in Copenhagen. Britain's Baring banking clan made a great leap forward by arranging an $11,250,000 bond issue for Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. The Rothschilds of Paris and London grew to prominence by smuggling millions in gold through Napoleon's line to Wellington's forces in Spain. Such are the foundations...
...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...
...dinnertime one December night in 1959, and the patriarch of the clan was ventilating one of his favorite complaints. "No one," said Joe Kennedy, a man worth more than $250 million then as now, "appears to have the slightest concern for how much they spend." The chastened familial silence that greeted this remark was at length broken by one of his sons. Said John F. Kennedy: "We've come to the conclusion that the only solution is to have Dad work harder...