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...cross a continent with a $2,300,000 Rembrandt without hiring a rent-a-tank? Play Santa Claus. California Industrialist Norton Simon, 58, had Rembrandt's Titus brought to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by Museum Registrar Frieda Kay Fall, who gift-wrapped it at Washington's National Gallery where it's been hanging for the past six months, labeled it "To Mother" and put it under her seat on the flight home...
Picasso & Pop. The museum was a triumph of individualistic donations. Its pavilions were named for their donors, the late realtor Leo S. Bing, Bankers Bart Lytton and Howard Ahmanson, who laid out a total of $3,675,000. Industrialist Norton Simon gave a $250,000 wad as well as a loan of $15 million in art treasures. From the movie colony (Billy Wilder, Bob Hope and Burt Lancaster) came a flood of art from Picasso to pop. Capping it all was Simon's loan of the $2,234,400 Titus by Rembrandt. To keep the floodgates open, the trustees...
...executives-including Pechiney's Chairman Raoul de Vitry, Rhone-Poulenc's Chairman Wilfred Baumgartner and T.S.F.'s (electronics) Chairman Maurice Ponte-came out in support of the market. In a speech opening Marseille's international trade fair last week, Emile Roche, a leading banker and industrialist, said: "Our economy deserves to be told, clearly and categorically, whether we are continuing the European movement or whether, for pretended independence, we are returning to the poison of protectionism...
Castello Branco's cause fared less well in the state of Minas Gerais. There the government sought to have Sebastião Paes de Almeida, 53, a multimillionaire industrialist-turned-politician, thrown out of the gubernatorial race for "abuse of economic power"-his legendary largesse at election time has earned him the nickname "Tião," after a famed Brazilian train robber. The state electoral court refused to cancel Paes de Almeida's candidacy. "If that section of the law does not apply to him," grumbled one Castello Branco aide, "we might as well...
Died. William Rand Kenan Jr., 93, Florida industrialist, who, as a chemistry student in 1892, stumbled upon a "dark crystalline mass" that later became the keystone of the billion dollar carbide industry, in 1900 turned to Florida hotel and rail development with his brother-in-law, Entrepreneur Henry Flagler, accumulating a personal fortune of $100 million; of a stroke; in Lockport...