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...quite symbolic. It recalls for many of us here Bernard Lorjou's The Dying Bull, [see cut]. The original painting hangs directly opposite the desk of our senior partner, who finds it an ever-present reminder that no "sacred cows" or immortal bulls roam Wall Street. As Baron Rothschild put it: "Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon...
...Only two other major portraits are still privately owned: Baronne James de Rothschild, still proudly owned by the Rothschild family, and M. Devillcrs, now in Switzerland in the collection of Madame Emil Biihrle, widow of the famed munitions maker...
...ERIC ROTHSCHILD, Lowell; House Committee; House Athletic Secretary...
Leverett: Richard B. Dobrow. Lowell: John C. Bates, Jr., Merom Brachman, Forrester A. Clark, Jr., Theodore Lappas, Jr., James H. Manahan, Theodore D. Moskowitz, Robert H. Neuman, Eric Rothschild, and Daniel E. Singer...
...this was a tribute to the cultivated taste and shrewd buying of a comparatively little-known French financial wizard who rarely paid over $10,000 for a painting, rarely made a bad buy. Born in Paris plain Leon Georges Levy, he early attracted the attention of the Rothschild family, who started him off as a clerk in the Rothschild bank, used him as a broker for their interests when he went into business for himself. He was soon collecting art. Just before the fall of France, he sailed for the U.S. (where he changed his name to Lurcy), managed...