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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1951.
Some say he has £300,000,000
A recluse in a gilded cage
by... ISIDORO de PEDRAZA
LISBON. lotters and telegrams. to his globe-girdiing network of agents. He has ณ worrian secretary with two assistants, who work in relays,
N the quiet, select, and superb Aviz Hotel, 81- year-old Calouste Sar- kis Gulbenkian, believed to be the richest man in the world; has given peremp. tory orders to the staff that the silence curtain which cuts his suite, No. 52, from the outside world must be drawn still tighter.
AN EPICURE
Food to his choice
FEW
ONE Or THE VISITORS TO HIS SUITE is his personal doctor, who tells Gulbenkian what his next meal should not contalu.
He has been rather startled by the searchlight of publicity that has settled on him since the news was published recently Lunch around 2.30 and dinner that he made another £500,000
at 10 o'clock is served by Russian valet, in five minutes when his shares Gulbenkian's in Shell oil rose by 10s, each either in the sulte's glass-covered because the dividend went up. verandah or at a special corner The hotel staff has been told table in the red-and-ivory hotel that anyone who allows even a dining-room. letter to reach Gulbenkian will be sacked.
So the richest man will in future bead more of the life of a recluse than ever in his modest-sized, four-room suite with its gold and marble bath-
room,
STAY-AT-HOME
Gulbenkian is very fond of Kome
partridges, particularly freshly caught sulmen, and the centre of a sirloin steak. Out- of-season fruit and vegetables are often flown to him by plane.
During the day and sometimes at night his Russian mald serves leod champagne and North Sca oysters.
TS
OING ON
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
His biggest deal was after the first world war, He emerged from it with a lifelong five per- cent share in the Iraq Petroleum Company. That alone is eat- mated to bring him in an income Charles
M
LONDON.
Conan-Doyle told me a Iow TUCH DISCUSSED weeks ago that he would
return to chvilisation man of the Korean
November.
But that campaign is General
A. Willoughby, Sherlock
before www
Exhibition Holmes
not until
the
of about £900,000 a year. head of MacArthur's Intel-known where all the relles are
had been proposed. He alone
Btaff in Tokyo. to be found.
him of
By the 1920s Gulbention was already a legendary figure. He ligence had mansions in London And Critica accused
Note: The exhibition should For Paris.
failure to assess Chinese in- pack in US. visitors. His Paris house, In which he
Sherlock Holmes to favourite tentions.
with Americans. now rarely sets foot, is on the Avenue
har 100 Yet, if his communiqucs are
d'Icno. It
rooms, including five drawing-to be believed, bls Intelligence When life begins..
1s nothing short gallery, system
miraculous.
Thro roof is covered by a trees and hedges garden with clipped in Oriental shapes, fruit trees and an orchid hot-house.
ART DEALING £1,000,000 sculptures
enerny
NEWS THAT travel agency
D Londom
Bas
beca Milbanke memories tho
DR
around
"Becsamo He begins at 50 and ends at D1. All people of my age (she is 50) are happier if
Interest in
have an especially
they
Life,
they are
willows. Otherwise they
become a bare."
rooms and a pleture
he Police guard it constantly.
I quote igures which It is like a Florentine Renals-
In Gize sance palace.
and gave to General MacArthur on
20. He then said taken over by Lady will bring nostalgic splendour the reception hall December
the Communists had
to society columnists rivals the palace of the French that
troops
in actually chandeliers 444,406 President. Fifteca
twenties and thirties.
For the middle-aged woman hung from the celling of the Korea, of which 277,173 were
Chinese and 107,233 dining-hall.
North
now stepping out on a business out Koreans.
the I have never seen a wartime career was then stepping
to some purporn strength In
gay spots of Europe. report of enemy such precise terms.
Why has the now taken The same kind of report ~~ meticulous to the nearest digit commerce? She
Wil- omes commonly from loughby's staff when referring GULBENKIAN'S ART to camalties infilleted by bomb. DEALS HAVE BEEN AS ing and strafing planes, swoop- at 300 lavish as his business moves.
ing over the When the Soviet Government miles an hour or more. decided to sell the Imperial col- What kind of a man is this lectlan in 1929, his agents were General Willoughby? Is he, as given first choke. During the his crities say, a publicity om- last war his representatives bid cer for General MacArthur, or
genius? against Goering for war loot. Is he.
secret service
German of a £6 10s, a day car Despite his quiet life Gulben-
Now his collection includes He was born FEW KNOW GULBEN- klan has the vigour of a much
some of the world's best paint-military family, taking Ameri- KIAN.
He plans his VERY FEW have younger
ings. Egyptian sculptures valued can citizenship in 1010, at the 66-year-old routine minutely and met him le rarely leaves the daily
for len And he has has been coln alone hotel, and when he does it is modestly, because be wants to of Armenian parents in 1889, a at £1,000,000, medals, coins (one age of 18. only for a tour in sky-blue live to be over a hundred, like fow years before the first Baku, Greek
priced at £2,500) and rare tapes-been closely
MacArthur. American limousine with silk his father. He proudly shows all well was sunk,
atness by doing physical His father and uncle started trics. his
an ol business, and the son, But is Gulbenkdan happy with jerks.
How much is he worth? Some after seeking a civil engineer- all his riches and power? Cer-
ho is à nc vous tainly million. others as ing degree. in London, began to vay 100 much as 2300 million. Probably make contacts in the Baku oil he doesn't know exactly himself. fields that were to prove vilai
Where did the wealth come to him.
At 27 he came to London and marred by recurring feuds with during the service attended by and sim in 1002 became Briton
He was soon represent wife lives at Portugal's fashion-Cabinet, and the Empire Prime also diets-fow fats, no coffee,
Ministors. oll co-able scaalde resort of, Estoril. ing various Russian
Gulbenkian kins,
fact. in
The words, from Ephesiana panies. It was the start of the 'Was born into it'
gigantic game of power-chess learned the bitter way that there VI., 10-13, were perfectly ap-
things kings and are some
in life that posite:- HE WAS BROUGHT UP with Governments, TO KNOW ABOUT OIL huge corporations, which he has money can't buy.
-(London Express Service). he spends the day dictating He was born in Constantinople played ever alnce,
curtains over the windows.
He hires it for £0 10s. a day, and
"keeps
it waiting outside the hotel for ten hours every day.
Naturally. he hates journalists and loathes photographers.
man..
In the hotel the stocky, stoop- ing multi-millionaire with round from? Oll-which has made so face, blue eyes, and
clipped many mon so infinitely richer white moustache la invariably than other men. surrounded by deferential HE KNEW OIL
bowing.
of
After an 8.30 breakfast
lettuce, cako,
carrots, raw chicken liver omelette, and tea,
Gulbenklan
Billingsgate Deals in Surprises
LONDON.
By IRIS ASHLEY
their heads, and a great many HE way things are, are still carried this way.
Billingsgate
Market
is of vital importance to us all just now; and at seven o'clock of a dark win- ter's morning it is a place teeming with life and move- ment. And just like life it is full of surprises.
Most of us, I suppose, have a proconceived idea of Billingsgate By a place where you could, so to speak, brush up on your language. A very tough lot of characters, I imagined,
and women wearing men's caps. It is not like that.
Of course, now and again men
hacidity.
But as soon as they saw
man,
Д
associated
5.30 a.m.
Truman
AMERICANS are notorious-
ly health conscious.
And
President Tromax
is no exception. years
Every morning he gets up at with 5.30.
He then: Does some physical jerks, swims, has a steasa bath, The King's choice? is sod and rubbed down, takes a dhower, and is inspect THERE HAS bean much ed by his doctor, General Wal- living in constant fear of being
conjecture about the les lace Graham.
for a ho goes After that pestered.
His personal life has been son read in Westminster Abbey Queen, the money. His the Klag and a naturalised his family over
Then his friend, Mr Mark Owen Griffiths, who received the These men get a retaining
this month,' B.E.M. fee from their firm and a
added the final com shilling for every box transpor-
Which is why they are ment: "Finest chap ted. called "Bebbins."
you could meet "
don't
Now, they used barrows as well, and business is sometimes helped by a floating populace known as "Scats," who belong anywhere, but will help push the barrows for 6d, a load. I was told that the Bobbing of each firm pool their takings at the end of each day.
Francis Marshall has sketched a typical porter wearing the hat peculiar to his trade (and carrying outsize halibuts). The hat is a model which dates back
I did not see many women at the market. Among the fow, drivers of vans and odd buyers, there were two nuns who hod
to buy come (you can buy in small quantities, of course), and there was Lily quantities, of course),
Everyone seemed
to
not
"For 100 wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against porocrs, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
of
walk.
be
little tea, plenty of salads, and with of buttermilk a glass every meal.
Comfort note: The President feet is encouraged to put his
bour after up for hatt lunch.
att
Stymied
FROM THE St. Martin's Review I take this story of Dick Sheppard, for many years It is vicar of St. Martin's. extracted from J. G. Lockhart's book on Archbishop Lang.
Diet Sheppard had no love of proud prelates. Here he is Min- again
walking in Yorks have ster in procession in front
the
Whose choice were they? As is the rule, the form service was submitted to Buc- kingham Palace. No one the King's personal staff
Dean knowB the
the final version
but
and
how much
muy
been inspired by the King. the Archbishop, carrying
But many people. recalling
primatial Cross, and
annoyed
the
the aptitude which he has bocause Lang did not approve shown in the past for anding of his playing golf with the right quotation to fit an butler. occasion, will believe that he chose that particular lesson.
News by runner
As they abarted, without turning his head, Dick mutter- ed: "May I play golf with the butler?
but There was no reply.
certain vexa-
of he could feel
TODAY I give a plece information which came to tion behind him. "May I play
me the hard way.
don't Baky to take going
you
golf with the butler?" he re It started off, by palive run peated, "If you ner, on a tropical Island in the Yes, I'm Indian Ocean and it brought all round the Minster and la-
Adrian to the crypt." me the news that Mr Conan Doyle, explorer son xươ
is
came This Ume an answer
undertone: "Don't the mystery writer, is coming in
a sharp home in April to supervise be ridiculous, Dick."
Festival "Well, here goes, I'm off to preparations for the
I play golf I'd like to give Mr Griffiths, of Britain Sherlock Holmes Ex- the crypt! May
with the butter?” know B. E.M., the last word on our bibition.
coral $ on
And the
Archbishop, know- He is a His party
re- ing that Dick was quite cap- to the archers at Agincourt and Lily, who is tall and cannot be visit to Billingsgate.
quiet-spoken man, not anxious land, investigating the
"Oh, a quite so young as she looks, for to discuss himself; though he mains of a palace built by the able of carrying out his threat, very well, who were loading or unloading is made of leather with
she said she had been buying told me of his eldest daughter, Queen of Sheba's envoya when capitulated:
and Dick: but it is scandalous, your lorries with cases of fish, from round, flat top.
for her stall which streamed ley (and very
at Beresford Patricia, whe majored in Liberal they were shipping gold
London Essen Serulce), Ashy) water, did say a word or
Square, Woolwich, for 27 years. Arts at an American University. ivory for the building of the behaviour is disgraceful.
Great Temple of Solomon two. Without any rancour they
His medal, he said, was more their views on the expressed
MR Fain, of Love Lane, is sald She has a boy of three and a matter to hand with compelling to be the only man in the girl of five and remarked that in recognition of all the market
world who
makes them; the she starts the day late now- men line the insides with cot- doesn't get to Ellingsgate ti porters than just himself. They and recently, though wet female somebody would call ton wool to make them fit and 7.30 p.m. Lily and life clearly recognise he said, the national through with snow and shush,
the market take the weight. They used to enjoy each other.
cleared they cost 303, but now they're up to
Just for the record, I naked usual. £5, Moddomi
He remarked on the absence Daniel Joseph, foreman port- for tips about judging fish. Ali er who has been in the market sh should be hard and Brm to of labour troubles at Binings-
the the touch; fresh cod should be 30 years, told me about hats, then he said I must meet yery white and its gills red; the gate during the war, and how George Fundell, B. E. who best skate is amad; fresh had the agreement made by Ernest Bevin and J. T. Bennett had dock should have a hard back, had sorved 38 years there.
and the best platce has bright lasted from 1934 to 1948. There THE market is worked some one Imagines a rather more red spots and is very stiff--as was a good spirit around the
thing like this: From around provident Mr Micawber, was in opposed to flabby. 5 am Torries and rallway vans the 1950 Honours List. He bring in the fish from coastal smiled a bit shyly and admitted and areas. Sample boxes are open to owning four children
two fish shops. He was, he said; quite aromarkable.
put, "Easy there, chum, there's ladica present!"
And I have not been any where, since the war, where it
is easier to get a smile and a
cheerful teasing joke as you go
by.
☆
ed up by the various traders at their stalls in the vast mar ket ball. From there buyers give their orders.
Mr Fundell, who looks
On the other hand his mates all round the market assured Then the seller's head-porter me he was a fine chap. "Ho details under-porters to cart the should have been knighted!" boxes from the wholesaler's van they sald; ho was an ex-pugilat to the retaller'n. The porters with a great knowledge of bull used to carry all these boxes on dogs. I was told.
POP
IVE LEFT MY SILVER CIGARETTE CASS
IN THE
LOUNGE!
JUST SUP DOWN ANO
Sæ & II OTILL
"THERE
place.
D3
to
I observed that I had wriggle my way in my small car through busy lorries, bar- rows, and men. Everyone, I said, You
YOU cannot squeeze the shell had been most uncommon polite of a good live lobster and helpful. Mr Griffiths looked and a at me with wise, humorous (Imagine wanting tol), cooked one should have its tall eyes, and his voice was gentle; well curled under. Those with "Oh, they're a very gallant lot, claws missing are liable to have very gallant indeed," he said.
They are, too, in all renses boon kept in storage tanies and
of the word. may have leas flavour.
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