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...only man in the world who could and would execute such a coup. As head of California's rapidly expanding Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., Norton Winfred Simon is the ruler of a business complex that embraces two dozen companies in fields as diverse as publishing and steel. A comfortable millionaire???about $100 million at latest count?who grew rich primarily by canning tomato products, Simon in recent years has leaped from catsup to culture by assembling a $45 million assortment of art that ranks as one of the U.S.'s most impressive private collections. He is thus not only...
Down a gangplank to Manhattan last week there strode a youngish man carrying a suitcase. He? Col. Ralph Isham, book collector, Boswellian, millionaire???was not surprised to find reporters crowding around him on his arrival from England. In his little suitcase he had some old pages, scrawled over in a faint curlicue handwriting, which he had recently purchased. These old pages, now bound into heavy leather volumes each stamped with the Scottish crest, were old letters and manuscripts, mostly unpublished, mostly written in the thin legible penmanship of James Boswell...
Born in Potsdam, N. Y., he has lived in Minnesota since his youth. He had only a common school education; then studied law. He made his fortune?he is a millionaire???as a corporation lawyer. But he is also a " trust buster." He was counsel for the Government in dissolution suits against the Standard Oil Co., the Paper Trust, the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger. He has been President of the American Bar Association...
...Qualifications. An ambassador ought to be a diplomat. More than that, he has to be a millionaire???especially at the Court of St. James. It is probably a moderate estimate that the occupant of that post must spend $50,000 a year in excess of his salary as Ambassador. This limits the possible candidates very materially. Judging by income tax returns there are only 10,000 or 15,000 millionaires in the country. Of this number probably half must be deducted for lack of proper education, a third of the rest for being Democrats, and nine-tenths of the remainder...
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