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...VALDEMAR MATHESON Oslo, Norway...
...horrors all together-sort of like watching an Ugly Contest. Karloff plays an admirable King Leer; Price wears a hairline mustache that looks like a third lip; Lorre at his loveliest suggests a contented tarantula. The real star of the show is Scenarist Richard Matheson, who has written three or four of the hairiest lines of the year. One of them is delivered by Lorre in a spooky cellar hung with colossal cobwebs, choked with sickly dust, and populated with rustling vermin. "Gee," he mutters to Price as he glances uneasily about the scene. "Hard place to keep clean...
...found a fellow sufferer in the venerable British trading firm of Jardine Matheson, whose three-year-old dyeing and finishing plant had been losing money steadily. Fortnight ago, using his own South China Textiles Co. as a base. Lee put together six smaller mills and the Jardine plant to form Textile Alliance Ltd. In tribute to Lee's managerial talents, proud Jardine became a junior partner in the new enterprise, gave C.C. the chief executive's chair. Says Lee, who is shooting to increase his exports to the Common Market: "The merger should increase our efficiency...
...Hong Kong. In the island colony itself, bank withdrawals ran more than ten times normal rates-but not out of panic. Among Asian investors, the rush was on to buy the first public stock offering of the most powerful British trading company east of Suez: 129-year-old Jardine, Matheson & Co. By week's end the 900,000-share secondary issue had been oversubscribed 56 times, and Jardines' stock, which had been distributed at $2.78, was changing hands in private deals...
...Habits. "The story of Hong Kong's development." says Historian Harold Ingrams. "is to a large extent the story of Jardines.'' Both stories began early in the 19th century when a pair of thrusting Scots-James Matheson and Dr. William Jardine-cracked the British East India Co.'s trading monopoly with China and, with the aid of a heavily armed clipper fleet, won for themselves 25% of the illegal but vastly profitable opium trade. In 1839, when the Manchu Emperor seized 20,000 chests of smuggled British opium, it was William Jardine who convinced British Foreign...