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During the past year, a number of company founders have claimed paper profits in the tens of millions of dollars. Several have registered gains of $100 million or more, making them, overnight, some of the richest people in the U.S. The winners in the going public game include a Korean immigrant, a former disc jockey, a onetime airplane mechanic, a theater critic-turned-stock analyst, a college dropout, an engineer-turned-stock analyst-turned-financier, and a molecular biologist...
...piece of the family fortune left by Jean Paul Getty, who died in 1976. Gordon Getty, 50, youngest of three surviving sons, inherited 13% of the family oil business but, until the past year or so, scarcely seemed interested in it. Designated by Forbes magazine last fall as the richest American (net worth: $2.2 billion), Getty spent much of his time as a patron of the arts. He wrote songs based on Emily Dickinson poems and occasionally performed as a baritone with the Marin Opera Company near San Francisco, playing roles like Cascart in Zaza. Getty, of course...
Question: How does the richest man in America celebrate his 50th birthday? Answer: Very differently from you and me. Specifically, Gordon Peter Getty, son of the late oil magnate J. Paul, who is estimated to be worth over $2.2 billion, flew "some friends," as he put it, from San Francisco to New York last week for an advance bash (he actually passes the half-century mark next week. The highlight of the three-day fling was an evening at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, where Mezzo Soprano Mignon Dunn performed the New York City premiere of Amateur Composer...
...year. In the economic arena, too, disenchantment with the U.S. was in evidence. In a report to his colleagues, Shridath Ramphal, 55, a former Guyanese Foreign Minister who serves as the Commonwealth's secretary-general, decried "the tendency of the United States, the world's richest nation, to distance itself increasingly from the generosity and enlightenment which marked the high point of its internationalism...
...robbery was the biggest in the history of a nation famous for high-bracket heists.* By comparison, in the 1963 Great Train Robbery-Britain's most notorious caper and until recently the richest-thieves escaped with a relatively modest $7.3 million in bank notes from the Glasgow-London Royal Mail train near Mentmore, England. This year, however, the records have been falling fast. On Easter Monday, a team of masked men invaded the Security Express depot in London and made off with an estimated $10.5 million in cash receipts. Two months later, five armed men, three of them disguised...