William C. Agee was annoyed that an abstract painter he admired, Sam Francis, was sometimes not given the weight he deserved because he worked in vivid colors rather than gloomy tones. “We have ...

William Agee was 38 and a rising corporate star in 1976 when the Bendix Corp., a large auto-parts maker, made him one of the youngest chief executives of a major U.S. company. Posted 12:20 a.m ...

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NEW YORK — William Agee was 38 and a rising corporate star in 1976 when the Bendix Corp., a large auto-parts maker, made him one of the youngest chief executives of a major US company.

William Agee, a one-time corporate star whose career foundered with an ill-fated acquisition attempt in the 1980s and the collapse of construction company Morrison Knudsen Corp. in the 1990s, has ...