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...cable Paris for news of the Match King. His friends announced his death after all world markets closed. Swedish Match once loaned $75,000,000 to the French Government. Matchman Kreuger was a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honor. Swooping from Stockholm to Paris came a whole planeload of Kreuger relations. The Match King, who was only 52, is survived by his father, mother, sisters, brothers. His secretive methods make the estate a question mark. "I don't know how much money I have," this long-nosed Swede often said, "and I don't care! What...