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Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Miami Judge Vincent O. Giblin finally decided what to do about the separation suit slapped on Fur Trader (four generations removed) John Jacob Astor III, 42, by his baby-faced third wife, Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26. Dolly, holding out for the standard $500,000 plum (the same amount Astor gave his first wife, and for which he is now being sued by his second), had offered hours of testimony to prove that J. J. was worse than a beast when aroused. Having characterized the testimony as' "the most...
...that the Semites developed the alphabet from certain cursive characters that the Egyptians had evolved from their own hieroglyphs. Later, other scholars began to discover certain signs that predated hieroglyphs -a series of trademarks, potters' signs, pawnbrokers' labels, and masons' marks that may have spread from trader to trader all over the ancient world. These, they reasoned, may have provided the beginnings of the alphabet...
...They simply cannot understand giving without taking, and as a result even our giving is viewed with suspicion. Gratitude cannot be banked in the Soviet Union. Each transaction is complete in itself without regard to past favors. The party of the second part is either a shrewd trader to be admired or a sucker to be despised...
...million Grace & Co., the No. 1 trader, banker, shipper, manufacturer and planter of South America's west coast, has itself invested $130 million in the U.S. petrochemical industry (TIME, Sept. 15, 1952). Grace explains that the company hopes to expand its chemical production into a hemisphere-wide operation. Meanwhile, Grace continues to pour into Latin American projects new investments that are expected to total $50 million...
Cash Before the Crash. Hirshhorn, who got his start as a Wall Street market tipster and trader, got out of the market with $4,000,000 just before the 1929 crash. For more than 20 years he has commuted between Manhattan and Toronto, has set up a string of more than two dozen Canadian mining and oil companies. In 1950 New York State's Attorney General Goldstein warned investors against buying shares in American-Canadian Uranium Co., which was backed by Pax Athabasca Uranium Mines. Ltd., a Hirshhorn interest (TIME, Dec. 4, 1950), because the promoters were making...