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Most of the heirs of old Claus-five women and three men, among them Playboy (five marriages) Adolph B. Spreckels Jr.-had shown little interest in the business. As they needed cash to continue living in their high & handsome manner, they preferred to liquidate the empire. Ambitious Charlie de Bretteville...
For their $5¼ million, De Bretteville and friends got assets which they estimate at $10 million. Among them: ¶Half-interest in the Spreckels Sugar Co. with its three California beet-sugar plants (including the nation's largest), and its 14,000 acres of land, most of it...
¶San Francisco's $1,000,000 Spreckels Building.
Although Charlie de Bretteville grew up surrounded by Spreckelses (his aunt married the late Adolph B. Spreckels, Claus's son), he picked up none of their playboy antics. A sharp dresser with an even sharper golf game (the low 70s), De Bretteville was a varsity swimmer and golfer at Stanford, spent a year at the Harvard Business
School. He went to work for the J.D. & A.B. Spreckels sales department at $150 a month, was western sales manager in 1942, when he joined the Navy. He came out a lieutenant commander. Now, as head of the Spreckels Companies, he says: "I want a happy ship and an efficient...