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...wrote: "First I invited ten reporters from the advertising trade press to luncheon. I told them of my insane ambition to build a major agency from scratch. From that point on, they gave me priceless tips on new business and printed every release I sent them, however trivial, bless them...
...Fords have made more millions, but modern standards of wealth do not really measure the Rothschilds. The fortune of the family's financiers totals anywhere from $500 million to $1 billion, but ledgers cannot reflect the Rothschild lands, their possessions and influence accumulated over the generations, their priceless collections of art. Though the Rothschilds' fortune has been subdivided more than 100 times over the years, it still seems inexhaustible. The family stands as elegant proof that to be truly rich in Europe is to be richer than anywhere else...
...assets of the Austrian branch in Austria and abroad, and Louis found refuge in Vermont; the Austrian house never revived.† After Paris was occupied, the Rothschilds were forced to sell most of their French stocks on an already depressed market, and the Nazis carted off trainloads of priceless Rothschild objets. By 1940, when all the other French banking Rothschilds had fled or been captured, only the eldest son was left to salvage what he could. Says Guy de Rothschild: "From that date, I took over the bank...
Almost every French Rothschild lives surrounded by a museumlike collection of priceless paintings, period furniture, irreplaceable tapestries. Drawing only from Rothschild collections, Sotheby's or Parke-Bernet could hold an auction every week for a year- and each sale would make news. Curators of the Louvre and the Met can only drool at the accumulations of Egyptian sculpture, Louis XV and XVI furniture, Sevres porcelain, 16th century enamelware, and wall upon wall of Goyas, Rubenses, Watteaus and Fragonards. When Philippe and Pauline have tea, their dog Bicouille is sometimes served a snack off an aluminum dish placed upon...
Woodward A. Wickham '64, Lampoon president, expressed "the profoundest regret" on learning that the bird was not to come home this Saturday. He added, "It is beyond belief that a bird-finding agency could be so incompetent as to let a priceless specimen out of its hands." Wickham also made it clear that the Lampoon had cancelled all plans for a mammoth celebration in Freedom Square tomorrow...