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...wealthiest men in the Army, Patton was born in San Gabriel, Calif., attended V.M.I, before he went to West Point, where he was famous for his jingles and atrocious spelling. It took him five instead of the usual four years to get through, but in his last year he was made adjutant-the second highest military honor at the Academy...
...King Simón I. Patiño of Bolivia; after a month's illness; in Manhattan. A woman in her early 30s, she had been given a fortune by her fabulously wealthy father when she married, and she became one of the world's wealthiest women when he distributed the bulk of his estate to his family last...
...Wealthiest Swede since Kreuger, Axel Wenner-Gren is a mysterious globetrotter, one of the last of the international capitalists. He built his fortune on wood pulp, aviation, munitions (Bofors), vacuum cleaners and refrigerators (Servel, Inc.). Since 1939 he has lived on Hog Island (near Nassau) on a magnificent estate called Shangri-La. He is an intimate of the Duke of Windsor. Two months ago he left Peru, where he had sponsored an archeological expedition, and arrived in Mexico, where he said he intended to "engage in economic activities...
...movie elite commands large salaries because of the scarcity of Grade-A movie talent and management. But they remain employes, not people of property, and they work for salaries. One or two of the wealthiest "may be worth five million dollars," but that is small change beside the established U.S. fortunes...
Died. Liza Hardoon, 78, reputedly the wealthiest woman in the Orient; in Shanghai. A Chinese, she was the blind, recluse widow of Silas Aaron Hardoon, a Jew from Bagdad who rose from night watchman in an opium warehouse to possessor of a fortune of some $50,000,000, most of it Shanghai real estate. Hardoon turned Buddhist, built a private temple within his high-walled estate...