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...logical end for a prospector - in the opinion of husky, handsome George Campbell - is in the poorhouse. But Prospector Campbell is a living refutation of his own logic: twice in his 47 years he has struck it rich in Ontario's rugged gold country...
...poke. He had just sold a claim to Campbell Red Lake Gold Mines and split $800,000 in cash and stock with three partners. (Much of the credit, he felt, was due an 80-year-old Cree Indian named Jake whom he considers his good-luck charm.) This time Prospector Campbell invested in more durable things than wheat futures. Among his new acquisitions: two planes (with a private pilot), a fully equipped yacht, a saxophone (which his wife abhorred "because it makes the wolves howl"), and the first player piano to be brought into the Red Lake district, complete with...
...this hallooing was touched off by a trim, glib Manhattanite, Alfred D. McKelvy, a former longshoreman, clerk, gold prospector (he panned $87 worth of gold in six months) and adman. McKelvy got his idea in 1939 while sharing the apartment of a lady friend (absent) with another man. The roommate rummaged through cosmetics he found, just for fun gave himself the works-including a bubble bath and a cologne rubdown. He enjoyed it so much that McKelvy thought: "Why wouldn't other...
...Leaf, a Hand. They found something very comforting about Beebe. He looked like a prospector, a stooped, greying man in khaki shirt, riding breeches and high-laced boots. He was always calm, dignified and assured. He wanted no money. Unlike doctors, he recited no baffling mumbo jumbo, but merely looked at his visitors' left hands to see what was the matter with them. "You look at a leaf to tell what's wrong with a tree," he explained gravely. "I look at your hand." The visitors began to feel better already...
Borrowing from U.S. financiers, Pros pector La Bine and his prospector-brother Charles built a refinery at Port Hope, Ont., hired scientists to do the technical work, and began producing radium (sale price: $25,000 a gram). It meant little to them that one of the by-products was uranium oxide. Had it not been for World War II, their prosperous Eldorado Mining & Refining Co., Ltd., which netted $280,000 in 1942, might still be producing dividends for shareholders scattered all over the U.S. and Canada...