Business & Finance: War in Container

A slim, blondish young man of 34 who is a Yale graduate and a member of the best Chicago clubs, and a heavyset, powerful man of 49 who was born in Osage Mission, Kan., last week were pitted against each other in the bitterest corporate war of the year. The young man was Walter Paul Paepcke, president of Container Corp. of America. The older man was John Paul Brunt, a director of Container Corp. Mr. Brunt is also executive vice president, although Mr. Paepcke has requested that,...

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