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WHERE THE MONEY WAS. THE MEMOIRS OF A BANK ROBBER by WILLIE SUTTON with EDWARD LINN 339 pages. Viking...
Jean Paul Getty was one of a not-yet-vanished American breed, the lone wolf operator who, through cunning, luck and a sharp sense of timing, builds vast wealth and a far-flung business colossus almost singlehandedly. "If I were starting again," he liked to tell visitors at Sutton Place, his 16th century estate outside London, "I'd do it the same way -exploring, wildcatting. If you hit it you get rich. If you don't you go broke...
...lived a life of contradictions. He traveled widely, but feared flying. He was a confidant of the rich, and a lifelong miser. Early in his career, he typically operated out of hotel suites, carrying business documents along with him in string-tied boxes. When he decided to make Sutton Place his "liaison center" in 1959, he decorated it with old masters from his huge collection, which includes a museum in Malibu, Calif, containing works worth $200 million; but he also cut back the Sutton Place gardening staff and had a pay telephone installed for his visitors' use. Said Getty...
...built was a hodgepodge that never became fully integrated like the major oil companies. Such criticism did not bother Getty. He was unique among oilmen -and other company heads, for that matter-in keeping almost total personal control of his empire; indeed he put in long working days at Sutton Place almost up to his death...
...Sutton said: "Most politicians deal with reality, and reality points toward Carter." Predicts Party Chairman Strauss: "We will have our most united effort since 1964 this November. Carter will not cause the kinds of antagonisms that George McGovern...