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DIED. Richard S. Reynolds Jr., 72, president and chairman, between 1948 and 1976, of the Reynolds Metals Co., the big (1979 revenues: $3.3 billion) aluminum maker founded by his father in 1928; of a heart attack; in Richmond. A grandnephew of the founder of the Reynolds tobacco colossus, Reynolds liked to say that "profits are to business what breathing is to life." He helped launch a Wall Street brokerage firm (now part of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.) before moving to the aluminum company, which is still about 12% owned by the Reynolds family...
...Abner Doubleday, who, legend has it, invented baseball about 140 years ago, would probably have been proud. Last week the mustachioed Union general's great-great-grandnephew Nelson Doubleday, president of one of the U.S.'s biggest book publishers, completed a family sporting circle by leading a syndicate that bid successfully to purchase the National League's last-place New York Mets for $21.1 million. Said Nelson in the new owners' first hot-stove-league pronouncement: "Running a baseball team is like selling a book. If you put a good team on the field, the fans...
...family custom that survives. Punch last year marked a grandnephew's birth with this ditty: O Nicholas Ochs put on his socks to cover his chubby feet. He dropped in the hamper a slightly used Pamper and went out for a walk in the street. O Nicholas Ochs walked blocks and blocks till his socks grew dark and dank. When he came to a stop and sat with a plop at the keys of the Times Data Bank...
...grandnephew of old Papa Bear...
...Louisiana law firm became suspicious when he claimed in an interview to be the great grandnephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia. He also said he was an avid skin diver, but bared his ignorance about the sport when one of the law firm's partners, a scuba enthusiast, asked him about...