MONACO: Richest Man?

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"Lady Zaharoff, widow of H.R.H. Prince Francis de Bourbon, wife of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the richest man in Europe, died last night of heart disease at Monte Carlo." Thus ran a single cabled sentence which might have been expanded into columns.

Zaharoff. In 1850 a Greek woman gave birth to a son by a Russian father. The boy made his way out of the Levant by means best known to himself, picked up ten languages here and there, picked up tips as a waiter in...

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