MINING: Tardy Cholo

As rare as were Marshals of Napoleon by 1840, or old Bolsheviks by 1938, are international capitalists in 1940. Of that once fabulous and proverbially sinister tribe, a seam-faced, 75-year-old survivor arrived with wife and family in Manhattan last week. He was Tin King Simon Ituri Patino. For many years Sefior Patino has run Bolivian politics from Paris, married his daughters to French and Spanish nobility, enjoyed extraterritoriality (and freedom from income taxes) as Bolivia's Minister to France. For several months he has been appearing and disappearing in the U. S. tin picture, uncertain where to settle. Last week,...

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