James R. Hagerty

In the 1970s, Glen de Vries was a precocious little boy who loved science, Lego bricks and model rockets. By 2021, he was a software entrepreneur who still loved science, still...

Like his more famous friend, Warren Buffett, Walter Scott Jr. spent most of his life in his native Omaha, Neb., and made billions from a diverse range of mostly unglamorous...

Four years after Thomas Plaskett joined American Airlines, the 1978 deregulation of airfares changed almost everything about the industry. Mr. Plaskett, who died June 24 at the age...

Born into wealth as an heir to the Champion Spark Plug fortune, George Stranahan chose to make his mark in physics rather than automotive parts. By age 40, he was teaching at...