Word: richest
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...brother is a frightening vision of the failure she might have been, yet she loves him helplessly, as if he were more than a brother. To salvage him, she takes Anthony back with her to Sweden, where she is ensconced as mistress to Erik Krogh, Europe's richest man and apparently a facsimile of Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger...
...oldest, richest paper in Washington, the Evening Star (circ. 226,000) is the capital's only real home-town daily. While other Washington dailies vie for national prestige and influence, the Star acts as Washington's devoted housewife, fighting as hard for good garbage disposal in the District as for good government in the nation. Like any efficient housekeeper, the Star seldom wastes anything, every day prints almost all the 200,000 words that file into its city room over the A.P. wire. Although its coverage of the government, Capitol Hill and the world is more complete than...
...Rome, while waiting near the Chamber of Deputies to pick up Italy's Communist boss, Palmiro Togliatti, Chauffeur Reclus Monari suddenly became the richest Communist chauffeur in the country. He was named winner of a 54 million lire ($86,400) football pool. Said Monari: "I'll certainly give several millions to the party and a handsome gift to Comrade Togliatti...
Married. Prince Muazzam Jah, 43, second son of the Nizam ("richest man in the world") of Hyderabad; and Sahebzadi Anwar Begum, 18, daughter of a wealthy Indian landowner; he for the second time (his first: Princess Niloufer ["Blue Lotus"] of Turkey), she for the first; in his father's King Kothi palace; in Hyderabad...
...read as a writer's reaction against his own child-labor and childhood shock. Yet Dickens was not only a fighter with words. He fought hand to hand with the dragon of poverty in the slums of London, and his sword was the mighty bankroll of "the richest heiress in all England," a Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts. The Heart of Charles Dickens is the story of their high-purposed and sometimes amusing friendship, told in a selection from more than 500 letters, most of them published for the first time, which Dickens wrote his lady bountiful...