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Last week Antenor Patiño, 65, head of what was once the richest of Bolivia's tin baronies, agreed in principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
...spongy wilderness on the splayed toe of Louisiana, where the muskrats and the alligators outnumber the people. In Perez' lifetime Plaquemines has risen, through the discovery of rich oil and sulphur deposits, from Louisiana's poorest back-bayou parish to one of its richest. Although he has never made more than $7,000 a year as a public official, shrewd Leander Perez has become a multimillionaire through his law practice and interests in oil and sulphur lands in his native habitat...
...richest men the in the U.S. is Allan Price Kirby, 68, whose personal fortune is estimated at nearly $300 million. He is chairman, president and controlling stockholder of Alleghany Corp., the vast holding company whose assets include control of the New York Central and the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services, the biggest U.S. mutual fund group. Despite this considerable power, quiet courtly Allan Kirby habitually wears the look of a doleful Alfred Hitchcock-and last week he had his reasons. Texas Millionaire Clint Murchison and his two sons, once Kirby's partners in Alleghany (TIME, Sept. 19), are trying...
Speaking as "possibly the world's money raiser," the President pointed at the "joys" of soliciting funds for worthwhile causes. As the richest university in the world, Harvard attracts great for anything it does, including drives, Pusey noted...
...rows of dark, curious faces. 'Well.' I said. 'well. I have spent fifty-four years trying to learn English and I find I still have recourse to the dictionary almost every day. English.' I said, warming a little to my subject, 'is incomparably the richest language in the world. There are two or three quite distinct words to express every concept, and each has a subtle difference of nuance.' This clearly was not quite what was required. Consternation was plainly written on all the faces . . . 'What Mr. Waugh means,' said the teacher...