The Boston Globe, August 9th, 1989
Faced with the agonizing choice of risking the company's survival or ending a family dynasty, Wang Laboratories Inc. sacrificed a son. Frederick A. Wang, 38, eldest son of company founder An Wang, abruptly resigned Monday night as president and chief operating officer of the Lowell computer maker in the midst of a financial crisis. At a special board meeting at his Lincoln home, An Wang, his voice raspy from recent surgery for cancer of the esophagus, assigned a committee to search outside the company for his son's replacement. The move by Wang, viewed by some as a "courageous" bid to save the...
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