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Remembering Lew's sad debut last year, when he first took King Jake Kramer's shilling ($125,000 worth, to be exact) and was whipped by almost every pro he played, a few cynical sports suggested that last week's tight tennis was all an act. But...
Oilman Jean Paul Getty, 64, not shirking his new fame as the wealthiest (at least $700 million) U.S. citizen, reviewed some recently accrued slings and arrows from his outrageous fortune as publicized by FORTUNE. At a private audience in London's Ritz Hotel, Getty told the New York Herald...
Bridge of Sighs. In Sydenham, England, when Jimmy Allison, 7, watching a movie, accidentally swallowed a shilling (14?), he hastened to the manager, confided that he was worried because "it's my fare home."
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, the late Armenian international oil tycoon, was a born collector. He began at seven in a Constantinople bazaar, buying Greek coins with a Turkish five-shilling note his father had given him, went on to accumulate one of the world's most prestigious art collections, valued...
The doctors' organizations began to threaten a strike. It would not be a real strike-physicians would keep on treating patients, but they would sabotage the N.H.S. by refusing to sign certificates enabling patients to draw sick pay, by pulling out of all N.H.S. committees, and by charging fees...