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...Manhattan's silk stocking district, William Green, an heir to the Grand Union supermarket chain, retained his seat in Congress by defeating Democrat Carter Burden, a scion of the Vanderbilt family. The pair spent $850,000 on the race, about half from their own fortunes, seeking a job that pays $57,500 a year...
Whether Baker's heir can do the same here remains to be seen...
...treated painting with the moral seriousness that Russians traditionally assigned to music or the novel. By art, he hoped, one is set free. The only art that could provide a model for life was the sublime. In that sense, Rothko was the last romantic painter, the heir to Turner or Caspar David Friedrich...
...Knole, their fabled ancestral home, sheltered the sort of elaborate sexual and emotional transactions fashionable among the Bloomsbury set. But the Victorian era boasted its own dramas of unlikely passion: Vita's mother, Lady Victoria Sackville, was herself the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish dancer and a Sackville heir. Courted by President Chester A. Arthur and J.P. Morgan-to name two of the more prominent suitors-she married her first cousin and embarked on a chaotic life that involved her in lawsuits, love affairs and implausible schemes for the preservation of Knole...
...plan appears to be to hand over the title of chief executive when he reaches 63 in 1980; presumably the heir would be Caldwell. The chairmanship would go two years later to Brother William Clay Ford, now 53, the owner of the Detroit Lions; Henry brought him into the top management last June. But Henry II will remain a board member until he is 70, giving him time enough perhaps to execute the last flourish of his plan: to install Son Edsel, now 29 and assistant managing director of Ford of Australia, as chairman of his great-grandfather...