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...intends to keep his office in a converted factory building, where he can maintain its rumpus-room atmosphere and his collection of rejected porcelain models and toy monkeys. Intense and charming, Philip dresses like a tattered English country squire, lives in a manor house whose living room has a copper floor and a ceiling made of floor boards. He runs two miles home to lunch to keep in shape for mountain climbing. Says one baffled Rosenthal executive: "I guess he is really a British eccentric." Rosenthal s fourth wife Lavinia, a London socialite, is no less...
...long. Fragments of pottery dated it back to around 1200 B.C., the late Bronze Age that Homer wrote about. Bits of planking preserved under the cargo show that the ship was probably built of Syrian wood and in Syria. She must have touched at Cyprus, the ancient copper center, to pick up a ton of copper ingots, stamped with Cypro-Minoan signs. She also carried ingots of tin, probably from Syria, that have long since turned to white oxide. Packed in wicker baskets, are fragments of broken bronze tools, weapons and household utensils. Apparently the ship was a floating factory...
...with a good book. Perusing the Greek classics and pinpointing their references. Italian Entrepreneur Jean-Baptiste Serpieri in 1864 rediscovered the ancient mines of Laurium near Athens, from which the classical Athenians extracted their wealth and the lead needed to build their fleet. Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther located copper on Cyprus by reading Latin manuscripts. The latest to cash in on the classics is a short, stocky Greek named Alexander Xenarios, who spent 30 years roaming Greece and making minor finds before he hit the jackpot: a deposit in northern Greece's Chalcidice district estimated to be able...
...lode of metal. He reasoned that much of the metal would still be in the earth, since the early Greeks had primitive mining machinery and thus could dig only shallow mines. Xenarios finally homed in on a region known as Skouries (meaning "deposits of rust") which had the typical copper field's tree-barren look. By careful exploration, he located the ancient mines...
...joined up with the company for a $350,000 exploratory expedition, last week had a team of Japanese experts working over the deposits. If the Japanese are satisfied by the find, they promise to put up $3,000,000 to form a new company with Chalcidice Mining, buy the copper output and ship it to Japan. Xenarios confidently expects a top position in the new company for his long days of searching and his long nights of reading. "Ancient texts," he says, "are good for modern business...