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...Paris French art critics, who are inclined to sniff at American taste, were wide-eyed and rams last week over the collection of an American-and an American banker, at that. Hit of the Paris season is the Orangerie des Tuileries exhibit of a masterpiece-studded collection lent by Manhattan's Robert Lehman. Delighted Paris art lovers and tourists swarmed to the exhibit by the thousands; even the exhibition poster (see cut) became a collector's favorite. One French connoisseur was heard to exclaim, "We never dreamed that anybody in America had a collection so wonderful, so well...
...legislation through Parliament for a pipeline to carry natural gas across the country from the Alberta fields. Though Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. was a private enterprise, the Liberal government generously agreed to build the Northern Ontario section of the line, which the promoters gloomily called "uneconomic," and even lent Trans-Canada $50 million when it claimed to be hard up. Only last week did the full measure of the big deal come clear: before a whiff of gas has moved eastward, backers of the pipe network have piled up more than a quarter of a billion dollars in stock...
...accusation was too much for Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein, whose reply was even hotter. "Syrian forces encircled towns in northern Jordan at the moment of the plot against the government," answered the Jordanians, "lent assistance to Communist leaders" and "armed and largely paid criminals to assassinate certain personalities in Jordanian territory; 160 of these criminals, provided with Czech arms, have been arrested." Naturally, Jordan continued, it was bringing these charges not "to embitter relations between Arabs," but just to help "Syrian public opinion to guard against its deceitful hypocritical leaders...
...group of Democrats quickly lent their support to the move, leading some members to predict that as much as million might be restored when voting on amendments starts tomorrow...
Roth and associates had already lent $1,000,000 to U.S. Hoffman when Stahl and Di Salle were unable to pay the April 30 dividend. When the corporation could not meet its loan deadline. Roth agreed to buy Di Salle's and Stahl's shares at about a share (giving each roughly a $25,000 profit), Marcus' shares at about $7 each. Roth, who with his new directors has already lent the corporation another $1,500,000 and worked out financing for most of the parent company's $4,365,000 bank debt, will be Hoffman...