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...charge top-price fees. 'T exacted from my clients in the way of fees all that the traffic would bear, or almost the limit." Foreseeing a period .of depression after Cleveland's election in 1892, he decided to accept the offer of Diamond Tycoon "Barney"' Barnato (Barnett Isaacs) to be his consulting engineer in South Africa. Six months later Hammond was working for Cecil Rhodes. For seven years he was one of Rhodes's right-hand men and closest friends. Says Hammond: "He was the greatest personality I have ever known." On an exploring trip into...
Died. Leah Barnato Blackwell, 40, England's "Queen of Diamonds," daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barnett ("Barney") Barnato, divorced last month from Carlyle Blackwell, oldtime cinemactor (TIME, April 3); of heart disease; in London...
Divorced. Carlyle Blackwell, 49, old-time film actor; from Leah ("Queen of Diamonds") Barnato Blackwell, daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato; in Reno. Six hours later he married Avonne Taylor, onetime Ziegfeld beauty, divorced wife of Thomas F. Manville...
...through faintly brown glass, according to passengers on the world-cruiser Empress of Britain which returned to Manhattan last week carrying 95 widows and 336 other passengers. Notables: June, famed London actress, divorced wife of Lord Inverclyde, who boarded ship at San Francisco as did her onetime friend Woolf Barnato (son of the late South African Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato) with his bride...
Died, Lieut. -Colonel Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, 65, famed British turfman, slum-born, director of Barnato Bros. & Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Co., mighty syndicates which control the world's diamond output and fix diamond prices; after a long illness; at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, England...