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Fourth-generation descendant of Mayer Amschel, founder of the Rothschild fortune, Louis was the only one of six children of the Vienna branch of the clan to be an active director of the family business, the Creditanstalt, State bank of the Habsburgs, of which he became president in 1911. The Rothschild bank survived the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918, remained Central Europe's biggest financial house. In 1929, with a typical Rothschild gesture, Baron Louis rushed to Vienna from a hunting expedition, took over the insolvent Bodencreditanstalt, great Austrian bank, the failure of which threatened the nation...
...only the five hatters but their three doctor brothers, 82-year-old mother and three sisters live within eight blocks of each other. Six of the Portis clan drive Buicks. All have bridge and golf as hobbies. The four who work in the Chicago plant drive there together, arriving sharply at 8:15. Seven of the brothers have two children apiece. One has three. In 25 years they have hardly ever disagreed. Says Henry proudly: "We put business ahead of profits and it worked...
Sixty-six-year-old Harold Fowler McCormick, millionaire head of the Chicago harvester clan, has recently been seriously ill with bronchopneumonia. Last week attorneys for Mrs. Olive Randolph Colby, Kansas City widow who is suing him for $2,000,000 (breach of promise), asked that the trial date be advanced. Reason: because of a crowded court calendar, the plaintiff saw "grave danger" that the defendant might not live until the case is reached...
...Golden Wedding, which brings the dispersed clan together. 2) The halting but hearty toast to that "dear octopus," the Family. 3) The nursery, full of memories, and the old teddy bear, now minus an arm. 4) The old nanny, who has been with the family 47 years. 5) The plump married daughter. 6) The slim single daughter. 7) The angular eccentric daughter. 8) The red-faced son-in-law, all teeth, plus fours and fatuousness. 9) The attractive unmarried son. 10) The mousy but pretty companion, in love with...
...Walter Hart; produced by George Abbott). Eccentric families have become common as dirt on the stage. The family in The Primrose Path is not only screwy but scandalous. Overflowing a ramshackle homestead, the Wallaces, except for one unsociable white sheep who insists on being respectable, are a cheerfully depraved clan. Grandma is a gamy old bawd, who in her day plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting...