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...pocket-size weekly of news tidbits; Tan (121,392), a monthly combination of homemaking advice and love stories; and Negro Digest (40,000), a literary monthly. Since he is also board chairman of Supreme Life Insurance Co. and owns a cosmetics company, Johnson is one of the wealthiest Negro businessmen...
Died. Maharajah Sir Pratap Singh, 60, member of India's fabulously rich aristocracy, whose income, estimated at $160,000 a week in 1951, ranked him among the world's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in London. A whirlwind life of fast planes and thoroughbred horses was the maharajah's style, and as prince of Baroda State, he played the role to the hilt, even after Nehru stripped him of his title for misusing $5,000,000 of the state's funds...
...successful trainer and driver in U.S. harness racing, he has won $1,000,000 or more in purses during each of the past four seasons, and in the process produced a steady succession of champions: Su Mac Lad was 1962's Horse of the Year; Cardigan Bay, the wealthiest harness horse ever ($980,000 since 1959); Noble Victory, the two-year-old champion of 1965 and winner of 37 out of 54 races...
...could do anything we wanted if we had the money," Goldhaber said, "but although we may be the wealthiest private dental school in the country, the yearly income from this source is only a fraction of the appropriation obtained by state schools...
...pupil, not to mention the illiteracy rate and median school years completed. It ranked dead last among ten Southern states in school expenditures as a percentage of personal income. Yet, thanks largely to the suburban outflow of well-to-do Washingtonians, Virginia's voters today are the wealthiest citizens in the entire South...