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Daniel K. Ludwig is an American shipowner whose tanker fleets outrival the golden Greeks'. Six weeks ago, Correspondent Dudley Doust got interested in Ludwig's oil refinery and orange groves in Panama, then our man in Miami picked up Ludwig's trail, and last week Ludwig invested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 2, 1963 | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

¶ The Devil is getting his due in French books, plays and movies these days, and Author Gabriel Venaissin notes the trend in the current issue of Combat: "An odor of sulphur hovers over Paris . . . The Devil in 1955 uses Chanel perfume, however. He is a distinguished man of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

Belle wastes ten years trying to win enough at the table to pay for her daughter's education. 1926 finds her at Monte Carlo and Lois a very entrancing young girl. "Count Feodor returns to see the daughter, a suit naturally not attractive to the mother. Luckily a young man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOIS PLAYS DAUGHTER TO BELLE AGAIN | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

But such dependence on the parental dictum was not the product of a virgin mind. The man who toys each day with pet lions must receive the credit. Surely it is time for him to outrival the poetry of D'Annunxio with a treatise on eugenics. The glory that was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUCES WILD | 10/28/1925 | See Source »

His wealth is inestimable. Conservative calculations place his fortune at $250,000,000, but it might just as well be $250,000,000,000. No one knows how rich he was. In death as in life he still remains a man of mystery, with a fortune that would outrival the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Der Tod | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

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