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...Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. This first complete collection reveals the witty playwright not as the foppish caricature he seemed, but as the sad and profound fellow...
Living evidence of the ease with which South African business has shrugged off the boycott is Tobacco Magnate Anthony Edward Rupert, 46. To stockholders in South Africa's Rembrandt Tobacco Corp., Rupert last week reported record profits of $4,500,000 for the business year ended last June. Abroad, Rupert's empire is flourishing on an even grander scale. Rembrandt included, his growing chain of tobacco companies, which now stretches from Ireland to Malaya, last year turned a pre-tax profit of $23.8 million on $560 million in sales. Though his business is barely 20 years old, Anthony...
...Rupert's rise is all the more remarkable because he is an Afrikaner. Traditionally in South Africa, the Dutch-descended Afrikaners tend the farms while English-speaking South Africans tend to business. Though Afrikaners run the country politically, only 6% of South Africa's industry is Afrikaner-owned; the other 94% is controlled by English-speaking South Africans and foreigners...
...King-Size Boost. Rupert, who started out as a university chemistry instructor, got into business out of a vague desire to do research into tobacco and to "manufacture something.'' In 1942, with a $40 grubstake, he opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. Not until after World War II was he able to scrape up enough capital and equipment to mass-produce cigarettes-and when he did, he nearly went broke. He staved off disaster only by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market their brands (Pall Mall, Consulate...
...research that turned the tide. Puttering in his factory laboratory, Rupert devised what he claims was the world's first king-size filter-tip cigarette. The new cigarette boosted Rembrandt sales so much that in 1953 Rupert bought out Rothman's South African operation. The following year he bought control of the British parent company...