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...their chief argument is that Culligan's interest in editorial salvage work has waned, particularly since the discovery of a rich copper-ore body in Ontario, adjacent to a Curtis holding of timberland. Since then, Culligan has filled the role of prospector with enthusiasm. Texas Gulf Sulphur, which made the discovery, has promised Curtis a mere 10% of the net profit in mining Curtis' acres-if and when they are ever mined. Buoyed in part by the blue-sky possibilities in Ontario, Curtis stock rose to a high of 191, has since settled in the vicinity...
Surprise in Store. Many Canadian investors placed considerable trust in the prime mover of Windfall: Viola MacMillan, 61, a shrewd, hard-driving prospector since 1923 and the dark-haired darling of Canada's mining men. Miners had elected Viola president of the Prospectors and Developers Association 21 times, and serenaded her each time with a lively rendition of Let Me Call You Sweetheart. She and her husband George, the president of Windfall, were called "the mining Mac-Millans." They also kept stockholders in the dark. To one questioner, Viola replied cryptically: "A lot of people are going...
Chocolate-covered ham is the prevailing flavor of Foxy, which borrows its name and some threads of plot from Ben Jonson's Volpone. Double-crossed by three rascally pals, Prospector Lahr gets his revenge by pretending that he is at death's door, with a fortune in nuggets to bestow. His greedy victims vie desperately with one another to show their love for Lahr. One of the sourdoughs, after snapping up a comely virgin for $33,000 on the Yukon's bullish bride market, even offers Bert the jus primae noctis. As for the gift, red-haired...
...only way I could keep anything." Steen now operates two big Nevada cattle ranches, has branched out into other kinds of mining (lead, zinc, silver, gold and mercury), recently bought a New Mexico marble quarry, and is erecting an office building in Reno. Says the 42-year-old ex-prospector: "I don't intend to sit around and collect dividends...
...Marvin stars in a science-fiction fantasy based on an H. G. Wells short story about a prospector who is swept by an avalanche into a hidden valley inhabited by a race of eyeless people. Color...