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A rather unusual request came in the mail today. It is from a college girl who has to write a thesis on “What would you do if you were a MULTI-millionaire ?” She puts the “multi” in capitals because, I suppose, everybody knows what to do with a million nowadays. Now the question be comes interesting only when it is a multi-million proposition. She wants me to advise her. She is stuck. Having an allow ance of only five dollars a week and being a member of a fairly well-to-do but not wealthy fami ly, she can't even imagine her self a multi-millionaire. She has never given the question any thought. But she has to write about it. It has something to do with her course in sociology or economics she doesn't say which. At any rate she wants me to tell her what I would do if I were a multi-millionaire. So now I am stuck. I can’t tell her. To judge by our mail, we newspaper folks are supposed to be able to answer every ques tion, whether it be on cooking, gardening, marriage, medicine, religion or being “a mlti-mil lionaire. All I know about multi-mil lionaires is what T read in’ the papers and frankly, to paracrase the song, “That ain't good.” For instance, here is a story about Doris Duke, the tobacco heiress. At the moment “she and her ex, Porfirio Rubirosa, are enjoy ing the beauties and quiet of Shangri-La, Doris’ Elawaiian estate.” Just before that, according to the report, they were enjoying the beauties and quiet of Duke Farms, Doris’ New Jersey estate. This place is described as follows: “Duke Farms has thousands of acres and LO lakes within its confines. There are Japanese gar dens, an entire kingdom of or chids and other flowers. “The house in which Doris lives is probably the longest resi dence in the world. Only two stories in height, the house's length is three city blocks, and you can see from one end to the other, as all rooms open upon each other in perfect symmetry.” When I think of not only the feast but the servant-trouble connected with maintaining that and all her other estates here in one way I would’t live if I were a multi-millionaire. Then there is Barbara Hutton I don't remember her present name. Here is a multi-millionare who has traveled all over the world to find health and happi ness and who has signally fail ed with all her fortune, sickness and misery have been her lot, ac cording to all reports, and all her millions have not been able to buy her what any shopkeeper or clerk can have, provided there is capacity for happiness. Now we come to Tommy Man ville who is rumored to be about to take his ninth wife. Would you change places with him? T am sure T wouldn't? So here we have three multi millionaires who haven't been able to meet the problem covered by my college girl's question. How can IT answer her? Can you? AT THE CHATEAT Roy Rogers in “North of The Great Divide,”
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Greencastle Daily Banner
Greencastle, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 08, 1951
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