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Married. Anthony Accardo, 29, adopted son of Anthony ("Big Tuna") Accardo, heir to Al Capone's Chicago crime syndicate; and Janet Marie Hawley, 23, Miss Utah of 1961; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Chicago attended by their families, four minor-league hoods, and 30 representatives of the FBI, the Illinois Crime Commission, Chicago Crime Commission, Cook County Sheriff's Office and the Chicago police...
Staggering Markups. Promoters have also made millions by buying prospectors' claims and selling them at staggering markups to speculators. Much of the Timmins land is owned by descendants of Boer War veterans, who were granted the mining rights in perpetuity. One promoter tracked down an heir in Buffalo, paid him $400 for his rights, sold them the next day for $30,000. There has been more claim jumping in Timmins in the last two months than in the previous 50 years...
Under normal circumstances, the 238,000 subscribers to Show Magazine would be getting their copies of the July issue next week. But circumstances have seldom been normal on Show, and there is not going to be any July issue. Last week Show's millionaire proprietor, A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, paid $3,000 for an ad in the New York Times to explain...
...also collects rents for owners of foreign properties, buys up blocked accounts at bargain prices, or, on occasion, the inheritance of an heir who has trouble getting his money out of a foreign country. In such cases, Deak is in effect betting that he can get the money unfrozen later or turn a profit by using the funds inside the country. He has the right connections for it. Occasionally, governments buy and sell their own currencies through Deak, creating an artificial demand that boosts the exchange rate and balms national pride...
Seasons by Decree. Bertie had to wait another 40 years before he became King. But as heir apparent, he set the style of English society for nearly half a century, determining who should be included and who excluded and where one should go when. The social year, as decreed by Bertie, consisted of two months (January and February) of shooting at Sandringham, two months (March and April) on the French Riviera, followed by three months in London for "the Season." No gentleman was seen in London after the end of July, when the Prince of Wales went to Cowes...