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Other discoveries of the week: ¶ A whopping collection of uncatalogued art objects-in a sealed mine near Alt-Aussee, high in the Austrian Alps. This "lode" is reported to include works from Monte Cassino, Rothschild collections from Paris and Vienna, the famed Ghent altarpiece by the Brothers Van Eyck, and a part of Goring's treasures. (Deep in the mine are Hitler's own library and personal correspondence...
...Stettinius last week let newsmen inspect the penthouse where he and his Big Power colleagues called the tune for the San Francisco conference. The apartment, atop the Fairmont Hotel, had been lent to Mr. Stettinius by wealthy Mrs. James Leary Flood, whose fortune originally came from the famous Comstock Lode (Nevada gold, silver). The facilities included a superb view of San Francisco's hills and bay, four bedrooms with bath, a circular library with a blue ceiling, and two love seats, upholstered in green, where Viacheslav Molotov and his consultants sat during the Big Power meetings...
...enjoyed an income of $500,000 a year. Ellin Mackay, second daughter of wealthy Clarence (Postal Telegraph) Mackay and his blue-stocking wife (author of Stone of Destiny) had grown up at Harbor Hill, the $6,000,000 country estate at Roslyn, L.I. that tough old miner John (Comstock Lode) Mackay gave Clarence Mackay for a wedding present...
...sugared and caricatured. Mickey Rooney's imitation of a boy's good & bad manners aboard a train is a bit of universal human comedy which Rooney's broad-axed clowning recklessly highlights. The Andy Hardy pictures are practically the only contemporary screen scratchings into the Comstock lode of U.S. genre comedy. Bad as they are, they are the nearest screen equivalent to Charles Dickens...
...Backyard Lode. Even Wall Street had a bonanza: the Exchange's biggest firm, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane struck gold in its own backyard. From a modest net of $147,000 in 1942, when it was desperately stripping ship to sail out of the market doldrums, Merrill Lynch kited its profits 33 times to $4,854,000. To do that, Merrill Lynch had to buy & sell $3,000,000,000 in securities and commodity contracts. The profits will not be long in pocket. Taxes, which are not computed in the net-Merrill Lynch is a partnership and taxes...