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...BARNEY BARNATO-Richard Lewinsohn-Button...
...crowded with accounts of self-made millionaires who never let wealth change their mining-camp habits. How rare they are in the financial annals of other countries was demonstrated last week by the awed fashion in which Richard Lewinsohn (The Profits of War) wrote about the democratic simplicity of Barney Barnato, one of the roughest rough diamonds among South African diamond millionaires...
Among the large group of Yardlings who answered the tennis call last week Cowles mentioned Langdon Marvin, Barney Straus, Homer Peabody, John Glidden, Hubert Earle, Jackson Dick, and Rosslyn Lyell as promising material...
...unlikely to continue after a merger with TWA. He also knew that TWA is in anything but healthy financial shape. So he asked General Motors to stall for a few weeks while he hunted for other buyers. These he found in the Wall Street investment houses of Smith, Barney & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. When they agreed to put up $3,500,000 in cash, keep the line independent and give General Manager Rickenbacker complete operating control, John Hertz gracefully folded his wings and yielded the battle. Said Eddie Rickenbacker: "I am glad to be able to save the airline...
...Soon to become Smith, Barney & Co. by merging with Edward B. Smith & Co. (TIME...