Word: hirshhorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burst of Prosperity. The uranium rush burst two years ago upon the declining old lumber town of Blind River, Ont. (pop. 2,500) with the news that Toronto Promoter Joseph Hirshhorn (TIME, Feb. 21) had quietly staked 1,400 claims covering 56,000 acres of choice mining prospects. On the map, Hirshhorn's claims formed a giant Z with its horizontal bars 30 miles apart. Within weeks, other prospectors poured in feverishly to stake another 8,000 claims. Land prices soared; Blind River's four "beverage rooms" added new tables, took on hefty waiters able to cope with...
...Promoter Hirshhorn's Pronto Uranium Mines, from which the government-owned Eldorado Mining and Refining Ltd. contracted to buy $55 million of uranium concentrates. Pronto will start hoisting ore in September, for a while will be the free world's biggest uranium mine, with a daily capacity of 1,500 tons...
Painter Evergood, a plump and tweedy 53, looks as quiet and gentle as Hirshhorn does quick and forceful. The impression is false. Manhattan-born Evergood was educated at Eton and Cambridge, but says he "wasn't fitted for that academic rah-rah stuff." He studied art in England, France and the U.S., came into his own with the Great Depression and the W.P.A. His choleric temperament led him to heel far left for a time, made him a top "proletarian painter" of the 1930s...
Easy Breathing. Hirshhorn's own story is as American as skyscrapers. A poor Brooklyn boy who did not finish high school, he started work on Wall Street at 14, made his first million at 28. "That's on record," he says happily, at 55, "and after the first million, it doesn't matter. You can only eat three meals a day-I tried eating four and I got sick. You can't sleep in more than one bed a night. Maybe I have 20 suits, but I can only wear one at a time...
...Among Hirshhorn's plans for spending his money usefully is the building of a whole new town near his uranium holdings at Blind River, Canada. "This is going to be an esthetic town, laid out for growth," he says. "I've got a Henry Moore and I'm getting an Epstein, a big one, for the square. I'll have a museum there, too. Maybe the miners won't be different because of the beauty, but their kids will." For Manhattan, he is toying with the idea of starting "a salon where any artist could...