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...Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain pit"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1931, Iowa-born Trader Howell manipu lated a squeeze on the Chicago market, grabbed 70% of all visible corn, made himself a cool million, got temporarily suspended. In 1934, Angler Howell reeled in a 956-lb. tuna to cop the world's record. Of his fishing-& -trading methods he once observed: "I go along...
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