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...didn't folks want to try out" on a ten-day, free-examination basis" the wonders of Basic Wiring, the Gunfighters (from "the very popular 'Old West Series'") or Knights of the Air("with a beautifully-bound leatherette cover and an authentic cut-out design of the Red Baron's plane...
...Lincoln's frock coat; the chairs from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron's plane wing; a "Mr. Bones" skeleton puppet used in a vaudeville show; Jimmy Carter's hymn book from Plains, Ga.; and a tie box full of old gallstones...
...little bare now," apologizes Baron Guy de Rothschild, 72, waving his hand at the empty black lacquered walls of his office on the seventh floor at 21 Rue Laffitte in Paris. Indeed, the art works by Bernard Buffet and Francis Picabia have been packed away, and out front workmen are getting ready to chisel the famous family name out of the sandstone above the entryway. Reason: the Banque Rothschild is being nationalized by the socialist government of French President François Mitterrand, along with the country's other major banks and holding companies. The Rothschilds, who are stepping...
...members of the French Rothschild clan will not lack for things to do with their money. Unaffected by the nationalization are the nonbank personal holdings of Baron Guy and Cousins Baron Alain and Baron Elie, including New Court Securities, a U.S. investment firm based in New York City, which will now receive more of the family's attention and money. And beginning Jan. 1, 1982, New Court will change its name to a more golden sounding sobriquet: Rothschild...
...funds from such corporate clients as General Foods, TRW and Hughes Aircraft. New Court's other owners include N.M. Rothschild & Sons in London, which represents the English branch of the family and is headed by Evelyn de Rothschild, 50, and the Rothschild Zurich bank, of which Swiss Cousin Baron Edmond de Rothschild is part owner...