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Life Begins at Forty Furniture Titan Began Building His Empire
Bernard Castro, who at 43 transformed a clumsy sofa into a convertible bed, built a furniture empire with five factories and more than 1,000 employees. He started with small TV ads in 1948 and expanded to four stores, planning coast to coast distribution as his business grew amid aging-worker careers and renewed opportunity for noncollege entrants. A Kansas City death report follows: John Lanham, 66, found dead in his Baldwin, Kansas car, autopsy cites skull fracture. investigators probing motive with car parked on Main Street.
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