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The snickers stopped in 1943, when Jacobs claimed an unimpressive colt named Stymie for $1,500 and turned him into one of the most spectacular horses of all time. Stymie won more than $900,000 in purses, allowing Jacobs and Bieber to buy a 283-acre breeding farm in Maryland...
The ex-convict remains bitter about his prison stint. Some Wall Street lawyers found the sentence extraordinarily harsh for an offense customarily punished by fines. The episode also brought to a standstill a project that was beginning to preoccupy Wolfson more than any business deals: turning his 478-acre
Maybe you had to be there to appreciate it. Same as with the 1960s. All these books and movies dribbling out now about that fine old decade are so heavy, they lack the old ring of verismo. But this bright and mellow spring Sunday just might turn out to be...
So there we were at the end of the blue line. We got off the subway and before us sprawled an acre of parking lot in the middle of which rose a vast stadium. Entering Wonderland evokes vague sensations of a military concentration camp. The building is surrounded by barbed...
There are richer men in the U.S., but Mellon's wealth is nonetheless so vast as to be scarcely understandable in ordinary terms. The value of his stocks, bonds and other measurable holdings−particularly in family-dominated companies such as Gulf Oil, Alcoa and Koppers−is probably...