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Article: Family ties. (Leonard Abess Jr. and City National Bank) (Hard Choices) (company profile)
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- Florida Trend
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- December 1, 1987
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FAMILY TIES
With his father's City National Bank ensnared in trouble, Miami publisher Leonard Abess Jr. switched careers in a bid to save the family honor. BY JEFFREY W. TUCKER
Back in the late 1950s, when Leonard Abess Jr. was 10 years old, his family used to give him a hug and a handshake and pack him off to summer camp in the Northeast. For young Leonard, the son of a prominent Miami banking family, the part of the summer he liked best was what came before he actually pitched his tent around a campfire. Each year, a chauffeured limousine would meet him at Idlewild Airport (it was later renamed John F. Kennedy International), whisk him downtown and ...