Business: Field from Glore

On Sept. 28, 1943 Marshall Field III will be 50. When that day comes the handsome, affable grandson of Chicago's greatest merchant will inherit the bulk of the $140,000,000 fortune his grandfather founded in drygoods and grounded in real estate. But Marshall Field III will not have to wait nine years to become a millionaire because he was 40 times a millionaire when he was a schoolboy. Since then bright, popular, progressive Marshall III has done many things of which frosty old Grandfather Field, who stuck to store-keeping and detested sidelines, would not...

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