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Died. Baron Edouard de Rothschild, 81, titular head of the fourth generation of the House of Rothschild; in Paris. One of the world's wealthiest bankers (in 1935 his personal fortune was estimated at $55 million), Baron Rothschild lost his property to the Pétain government in 1940 when he and his wife fled to the U.S. (they managed to get out with $1,000,000 in jewels...
Divorced. Prince Aly Khan, 37, well-heeled son of the Aga Khan ("Wealthiest Man in the World"); and Princess Aly Khan, 40, the former Mrs. Joan Yarde-Buller Guinness of London; by mutual consent, after nearly 13 years of marriage, two children; in Paris. After a Moslem divorce (mere public proclamation), the Prince will be free to marry his great & good friend, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth...
...host greeted us with tipsy cheeriness as his guests oohed and aahed over his gay shirt pasted with cutouts of Esquire girls. Inside the rooms were assembled, in monstrous taste, old tapestries, carved Italian statues of the 15th Century, paintings of madonnas, and some fourscore of Bavaria's wealthiest and most titled citizenry. Heading the guest list was one of the Kaiser's grandsons, a little ill at ease and easily the soberest guest in the place, and his pretty, dark-eyed sister, a refugee from the German Eastern territories. As the host eyed the dignitaries with evident...
Nakago's five square miles contain eleven hamlets scattered between the stray, stony ridges of fingerlike hills that protrude above its low-lying rice paddies. Nearly half Nakago's area can be cultivated and its families own an average of almost three acres. The wealthiest villager had 97 acres before land reform...
...sane person out of his mind might drive an insane one back into it. But snake pits still exist. The Shame of the States, a recently published, chillingly factual report on conditions in state mental hospitals (see MEDICINE), reveals horrors in the midst of the world's wealthiest, healthiest country which many Americans may refuse to believe. The large, hidden population of the mentally ill lives amid squalor, dirt and creeping fear, in the solitary confinement of the sick mind and behind the walls of the world's indifference...