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Son Bedford's hair is grey, so is his mustache. The walls of his office are covered with pictures of his racing yachts and his horses. But the most prominent picture on his walls is one of his father. Many times they took an early morning train to Manhattan, played poker. Every winter F. T. Bedford would spend a month or so with his father at Lake Wales, Fla. Each admired the other. But years ago they made a rule never to discuss business together. The rule was very seldom broken even to mention such important matters as Corn Products' patent infringement suit against Penick & Ford, or Penick & Ford's patent infringement suit against Corn Products.
*Another son who faced his father is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels of San Francisco. In sugar and in utilities he defeated his father, Claus Spreckels. His father announced: "My son has beaten me twice. No other man can beat me once." (TIME, Nov. 19, 1928).