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Married. Arline Judge, 35, pert-faced cinemactress; and Henry J. (Bob) Topping, 33, tin-plate heir; she for the fifth time (her second: Dan Topping, brother of the current groom), he for the third; in Miami Beach...
High on the chill slopes of Bolivia's 12,000-ft. altiplano, a cholo (half-Indian) store clerk one day let a prospector settle a $250 account for a claim to a tin mine. The clerk's boss, outraged by the deal, gave him the claim and made him pay the bill. That was how, at the turn of the century, cholo Simón I. Patiño got into the tin business. For years, he and his sinewy wife wielded picks, hauled up buckets, smashed ore. By 1910, they were rich...
...shrewd Tin Baron Patiño did not let diplomatic frippery interfere with business. When the world depression of the 1930s set off a tin crisis, he helped form a cartel with British and Dutch producers. Together, they held prices firm...
...tin can and the automobile (bearings) made Tin Baron Patio one of the world's five richest men. He moved to Europe, lived like a prince among a fawning nobility that overlooked his cholo beginnings. From Paris, Patiño managed Bolivian politics, elected presidents, juggled Cabinet ministers. He had himself appointed Bolivian Minister to France. Son Antenor married the stately Cristina de Bourbon, niece of dethroned Alfonso XIII of Spain...
Died. Simón I. Patiño, 86, Bolivian tin king whose whopping fortune (estimate: $300-$500 million) got bigger almost every time a housewife opened a tin can; in Buenos Aires (see LATIN AMERICA...