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...golfers themselves, the Tournament of Champions is the second-richest competition in the U.S. ($37,500 in prizes).* For gamblers, professional and amateur, it offers golf's biggest Calcutta pool, i.e., player auction. And it offers just the sort of risk the high rollers like to take. There is no house cut; there are no handicaps to figure; the field is small and brimful of class (eligible players must have won a P.G.A.-sponsored tournament during the past year). So when Los Angeles Auctioneer Milt Wershow jumped onto the stage, the boys were ready with their money...
...brought in one of the province's first major oil wells at Leduc in 1947. Since then, he has plowed his oil earnings into a steadily successful search for more oil and gas. His companies now own or control hundreds of wells, hold leases on some of the richest oil lands in Alberta and British Columbia; McMahon's petroleum empire is estimated to be worth at least $250 million...
Divorced. By Sir Pratapsinghrao, 47, one of the world's richest men (estimated yearly income: $8,000,000), who, as India's Gaekwar ("Keeper of the Cattle") of Baroda (1939-51), ruled a princedom of 8,000 sq. mi. with some 3,000,000 subjects: his second maharani, cigar-smoking Sita Devi, 41; after 13 years of marriage, one child (Prince Sayajirao); in Bombay...
Biggest, brawlingest and richest ($7,975 in prizes) local art annual in the U.S. is held by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, as usual, Chicago's 59th annual blew up in a storm of local outrage. Reason: of the 24 cash awards (picked from 2,027 works submitted), 18 went to relative unknowns, e.g., the top painting award ($1,500) was won by Canadian-born Anna P. Baker, 27 and two years out of art school, for a hectic, minutely squiggled abstractionist canvas titled High Frequency Ping. Almost every big-name Chicago artist finished...
...MOVIES, Hollywood's richest untapped hoard for TV, are up for rent or sale. Estimates on the price of the 3,000 pre-1948 movies (including 800 silent films and 1,100 shorts) run as high as $110 million v. the $21 million paid by TV for Warner's backlog...