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Globe-trotting Swedish Tycoon Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren went into economic and diplomatic eclipse 18 months ago when the U.S. and Britain black-listed him and his fabulous array of world enterprises (TIME, June 29, 1942). Last week, on an hacienda outside Mexico City, Hermann Göring's onetime friend was busy with earthy new interests. He was experimenting with the breeding and raising of hogs, poultry, sheep and dairy cattle-still with a pale blue, acquisitive eye on postwar opportunities. True to Wenner-Gren tradition, he bought not one hacienda but a half dozen...
Sirs: . . . You state (TIME, Feb. 1): "Only privately owned U.S. magazine which is exported in languages other than English is Reader's Digest. . . ." . . . This magazine, La Hacienda, is privately owned and has been published every month without a break since October 1905, in Spanish. Its counterpart in Portuguese has been published every month since 1911. There are no less than six other magazines published in Spanish and exported to Latin America from the United States which have been in existence more than 20 years-not to mention the 65-year-old "Exportador Americano." . . . ALBRO C. GAYLOR New York City...
...years ago Rubinstein bought a stucco Spanish hacienda in Hollywood from Cinemactor Pat O'Brien. There he established his blonde Polish wife and their two young children, who attend a Quaker school. As friends Rubinstein prefers writers to musicians, pals around whenever possible with Ernest Hemingway...
Called to service on the Mexican border, he leased a hacienda, entertained generals at parties. He went to France in 1917 as a member of General Pershing's headquarters staff. Later, he was for a while lieutenant colonel of Marshall Field's outfit, the 122nd Artillery, then colonel of the 61st Artillery. Before the end of the war he was sent back to the U.S. as commandant of Fort Sheridan, near Chicago...
With regard to rationing of petroleum products for agriculture, I take pleasure in attaching a detailed statement of the consumption of oil, gasoline, and greases in my hacienda (farm) 'Tihuilocoyo,' in the Department...