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...share because of the overexpansion, has since been suspended from trading on the American Stock Exchange; Bellanca subsidiaries folded or were sold, and Sid Albert himself lost about $8,000,000 in the crash. The man who will pick up the pieces: Bellanca Vice President Arthur K. Rothschild. 40, a former Internal Revenue Service agent, who joined Albert's family business in Akron in 1949, went over to Bellanca Corp. in 1955 as treasurer and director. Rothschild will now try to salvage a company that has been reduced to a small machinery rebuilding firm with 100 employees...
Died. Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, 76, great-grandson of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the fabled European banking dynasty; after long illness; in Geneva. Momo was only an incidental banker, whose real interests were art collecting, fast horses and gaudy pajamas. A splashy spender, he was elected (1924) Deputy to the French National Assembly, had his seat booted when a bribery charge stuck, softened the bump by winning a senatorial race...
Commerce's Sinclair Weeks, 63, who wants to retire to his New Hampshire farm. One possible successor: Under Secretary for Transportation Louis Rothschild...
Both prayer books were bought from Baron Maurice de Rothschild's collection in 1954 by James J. Rorimer, then curator of The Cloisters, a Met outpost. For Medievalist Rorimer the two books represented "an extraordinary opportunity for supplementing The Cloister's collections." Rorimer, now the Met's director, used income from a $10 million gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to purchase the books, waited until this year's Christmas season to announce the acquisition...
...salute boomed from the British aircraft carrier Bulwark, and First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Cilcennin stepped forward briskly to shake hands. "This is an historic moment," said Bulganin, shuffling past the guard of honor. On the train to London there was Château Lafite-Rothschild '50 for lunch, but when Khrushchev asked whether he could take the bottle along with him, the waiter said: "I'm sorry, I can't do that, sir. Regulations." At London's cavernous Victoria terminal Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, towering head and shoulders above B. & K., greeted them...