AUTOS: The Rouge & the Black

(See Cover) In the folklore of American capital ism, the rich boy sometimes seems to have less chance of success than the poor boy. Americans build fortunes, but sel dom dynasties. And enough fortunes have been wasted away by the sons of rich men to give truth to the saying: "From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three gen erations." No one had a better chance to make this saying come true again than the Ford brothers, Henry, Benson and William, grandsons of the unpredictable, profound ly radical genius who began the age of mass production and created a billion-dollar empire...

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