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Five and Dime Scion Lance Reventlow, one of the future's richest men, turned 21, was cheered by the gift of a $425,000 Beverly Hills estate, complete with waterfall, from his sixfold-married mamma, Heiress Barbara Hutton. Two days later, Speed Demon Reventlow, who flies low about town in a Mercedes-Benz and races in a scarlet Maserati, was uncheered on getting the boot from the Sports Car Club of America. Paying no mind to young Reventlow's third-place victory in an amateur sports-car race in Florida a year ago, the club, which permits...
With this purchase Niarchos, one of the richest men in the world, is well on his way toward becoming one of the world's great collectors. (His prize painting is El Greco's Pietà, for which he paid $400,000.) With town houses in Paris and Athens, a penthouse duplex in Manhattan, a mansion on Long Island, a London penthouse at Claridge's, a chateau on the French Riviera, a lush Bermuda beach residence and a 190-ft. yacht, the Creole, biggest privately owned sailing vessel in the world, Niarchos has acres of wall space, always...
GENERAL ANILINE & FILM, richest enemy firm seized by U.S. in World War II, is on the block. SEC accepted the Justice Department's registration statement for sale to private U.S. iavestors of 80% of stock in $160 million company. Department hopes to get rid of its holdings despite suits by 1,500 foreign shareholders to block sale...
...Richest? Now Getty is taking the last step toward a fully integrated oil empire that will run from producing field to gas pump. Tidewater will soon finish a $200 million refinery on the Delaware coast, and by May the plant will be producing 130,000 bbl. of gasoline and fuel daily. It will also have one of the world's biggest single fluid catalytic crackers (processing...
...stock dividends on its common so that all profits can be put back into expansion, has climbed from 11 in 1950 to last week's 45¼. Still Paul Getty is dissatisfied. As one of his few close friends explained: "Getty is not content being one of the richest men in the world; he wants to be the richest...