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Heir to the Duke tobacco dynasty, Walker P. ("Skipper") Inman Jr., 10, is already one of the world's richest little boys-and potentially one of the wealthiest men of the late 20th century. An orphan since the age of six, Skipper, who lives with his uncle on a 2,000-acre farm in Brunson, S.C., will get $30 million from his father's estate when he reaches 21. Now, following the death of his grandmother Nanaline Holt Inman Duke, he will get another $35 million. All but passed over in the latest parceling was Skipper...
Ebony Magazine's list of the 100 wealthiest U.S. Negroes (assets of at least $250,000 apiece) was chockablock with dentists, morticians and real estate moguls, but there was only a handful of familiar names-Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Comedian Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, Heavyweight Champ Floyd Patterson, Baseball-Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson, Singers Marian Anderson. Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, Lena Home and Johnny Mathis, who was the only one of the bunch to place among the 35 Negro millionaires. One famous name missing from the list: high-living Horn Man Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 61, who once...
Williams is one of the wealthiest playwrights in recent history, but he is fearful that he will die destitute. He has earned some $6,000,000 during his playwrighting career, owns only the house in Key West and a house in Miami. After years of popular and critical success, he has virtually no confidence in his talents and is self-deprecating to the point of abasement: "I always expect total failure. I'm not a good writer. It's incredible that I've managed to write as long as I have. I don't believe...
Died. W. (for William) Alton Jones, 70, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co. and board chairman of Richfield Oil Co., a Missouri farmer's son who rose from a janitor's job to become one of the nation's wealthiest executives, guided Cities Service out of a pre-Depression debt of $500 million to its present billion-dollar assets by a policy of worldwide expansion, won national gratitude for pushing through the World War II construction of the Big and Little Inch pipelines; in the Idlewild jet crash...
...David Rutstein, Chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine, remarked in a speech in Philadelphia that the wealthiest nation in the world is by no means the healthiest. American men and women are not as healthy as they should be and physicians don't know why, Rutstein said...