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...object to the principle behind the usage of Mr. McCloy's name and believe that there are many more people more deserving than John J. McCloy of such an honor. Pauline W. Chew Mary Pye Akill Tysen Yvonne Sin Suzanne Matheral Marry Chavez Emilly Schulman
...offices in the U.S. and abroad and 20,000 cooperating brokers in almost every country in the world. Each year it handles $75 million worth of property, in 1957 sold $28 million worth-and made $2,250,000 in fees. Last week Previews' president, white-haired John Colquhoun Tysen, 45, was off on an annual world tour to sew up new deals with pashas and parvenus, unemployed royalty and hard-headed businessmen...
Careful Eye. Tysen is convinced that some of the best buys are in the sunny resort lands of southern Europe. His Spanish subsidiary, formed only last month, is already dickering to develop a three-mile stretch of virgin coastline above Valencia into Europe's fanciest resort. "The world has gone sun crazy," says Tysen-and Previews intends to grab a place...
Previews also keeps a careful eye on depreciated slum areas that may go industrial, is gradually increasing its trade in land for industrial purposes. Tysen is negotiating with Belgian government officials about industrial development of the Inga Rapids area of the Congo River, a vast, water-rich slice of the Belgian Congo (TIME, Nov. 25) which engineers fondly describe as "the Ruhr of the 21st century." Tysen will also shop around for three kings interested in plush homes, has hunting licenses for land for a British firm that wants to build 700-room luxury hotels in Lisbon and Vienna...
...seven-room lodge on Hayden Lake in Idaho, now for sale at $95,000. "We don't live by soufflés alone," says Executive Vice President Robert T. Furman Jr. But Previews has made its reputation peddling white elephants and exotic properties. For $300,000 Tysen will sell a half share in an Irish distillery, for $182,000 the title to the Windward Island of Mustique, which Previews claims includes the right to appoint one's own parliament...
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