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Last week the richest man in Shanghai arrived in San Francisco. World-traveling Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon is the Naples-born great-grandson of a Bagdad Jew who moved to Bombay and got rich in the Chinese opium trade. Other famed Sassoons: the late Sir Philip of London, Britain's art-loving ex-Under Secretary of State for Air, and Siegfried of Wiltshire, foxhunting ex-poet. But Cousin Victor of Shanghai is the financial head of the family. Thirteen years ago, fleeing taxes, he transferred some $85,000,000 (Mex.) from British India to free Shanghai, where there...
...great-grandson, Jay Cooke IV, who looks less like a magnifico than a well-coddled good egg, is an enthusiastic archer, a limited partner in a Philadelphia firm of securities underwriters, an amiable, conservative gentleman who neither courted nor got much public notice until...
August Belmont, 30, grave, highbrowed great-grandson of his namesake who came to the U. S. in 1837 as the Rothschilds' first American representative, was elected director and vice president of Bonbright & Co., investment banking firm. Since graduating from Harvard in 1931, Belmont passed through a Bonbright ap prenticeship in the firm's bond buying department...
Dynasty by Adoption. The history of Sweden in the 81 years since King Gustaf's birth is just about the best possible argument for constitutional monarchy. The Royal House, as lineage goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte, soldier of fortune, the son of a French petit bourgeois of Pau who played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were...
Married. Frederick Penrose Tennyson, 26, cinema director, great-grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Nova Pilbeam, 19, British cinemactress (Little Friend, Nine Days a Queen); in London...