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...WORLD BUSINESS section gets its first cover story-on the liveliest member of the legendary Rothschild family. Boris Chaliapin flew to France to paint Guy de Rothschild in an appropriate setting-against a sumptuous red silk brocade wall in the 18th century Rothschild town house in Paris. The Rothschilds are discreet as bankers and reticent as a family, and it took a heap of interviewing (and 120,000 words of research) for the story that Marshall Loeb wrote. A new and thorough job of reporting was necessary, for, as Researcher Kathleen Cooil discovered, the books on the subject not only...
...family's business. Last year, despite Brazil's eroding currency, the business grossed well over $60 million. As to which of the many branches is the most profitable, that is a secret the family holds tightly. "I always remember what my father told me about Baron Rothschild," says Israel Klabin. "When he was dying, Rothschild called in his sons and said: 'I have only two things to tell you. Never show your books, and good night and goodbye...
...Victor Hugo, Charles Peguy, Theophile Gautier, Paul Claudel and, more recently, Jean-Paul Sartre. The poet Baudelaire was aptly pegged ("somewhat bizarre charm") before being expelled for refusing to unhand another boy's note in class (he swallowed it). Louis-le-grand produced Bankers Henri and Alphonse de Rothschild; Sweden's King Oscar II, France's President (1913-20) Raymond Poincaré, Senegal President Léopold Senghor. Premier Georges Pompidou went there, and so did at least
Maury Mandel, co-owner of Jerry Rothschild's barbershop in Beverly Hills, says his hairpiece trade has gone up at least 200% in just the past year. "It used to be men of 50 or 60 who would come in," says Mandel. "Now it is men of 30 or 35. It's part ego and part it's just annoying to be bald." Though show biz types like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra are still leaders in the wiggy set, "ordinary people are going in for the same routine," says Mandel. In San Antonio, whose wig merchants...
...Malraux. Premier in the Cabinet that was overthrown in October, and now Premier-designate, Pompidou is probably closer to the President than any other minister. He was a schoolteacher and Resistance fighter before joining De Gaulle as a consultant on education in 1944, later became director of the Rothschild bank. De Gaulle, who does not relax easily, is soothed by Pompidou's roguish self-assurance, and even permitted him to help edit his Memoirs. A middle-road liberal, Pompidou is the likeliest choice to head the Gaullist party after De Gaulle leaves the scene...