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...Francisco's aquiline old Amadeo Peter Giannini, whose $5,538 million, 493-branch Bank of America is the world's largest private bank (TIME, April 15), circled low for another capture. His prey: the $360 million, 31-branch Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles...
Elisha Walker has long been accustomed to dealing in sums ending in six zeroes and with such titans of finance and industry as Harry F. Sinclair (oil), Frederick H. Prince (railroads), Eugene G. Grace (steel), Amadeo P. Giannini (banks), Joseph P. Kennedy (whiskey, real estate), and Bernard M. Baruch (investments and advice to Presidents...
Because you write us more often about our cover stories than about any other stories in TIME, you may be interested in knowing how a cover story is put together. For instance, take last week's cover on California's Amadeo Peter Giannini...
Occasionally, like an aging but still truculent eagle, San Francisco's Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini feels an urge for solitude, flaps eastward to survey his Pacific Coast empire from a distance. In the past these vigils were often disturbed by the sight of an enemy and Giannini's instinct for plummeting into violent battle. But last week in Palm Beach the 75-year-old Giannini sunned his scars in peace, lazily observed the movements of lesser birds, and gazed west with a benevolent softening of his hooded eyes...
Padrone. Today, although he is technically retired, Amadeo Peter Giannini is still in control of his sprawling Goliath. A widower, he lives with his daughter in the gabled house he built in San Mateo before the earthquake. "She has her guests in," he explains, "and they talk or play cards. I sit in a corner and listen to the radio." Every facet of his business still interests him. "My brain never stops," he says. "I think while I sleep...