
I thought I would post this article from last nights EVENING STANDARD, simply because it made me laugh.
What happened to 1923's "Worlds most successful men??";
President of the NYSE
RICHARD WHITNEY - RELEASED FROM PRISON TO DIE AT HOME.
Worlds Greatest Wheat speculator
ARTHUR COOGER - DIED ABROAD, PENNILESS.
President of the Bank of International Settlements
LEON FRASER - SHOT HIMSELF
Great Bear of Wall Street
COSABEE LIVERMORE - COMMITTED SUICIDE
Boss of largest steel company
CHARLES SCHWAB - DIED A PAUPER
Head of major Gas corporation
EDWARD HOPSON - WENT INSANE
PGA Golf Champion & Winner of US Open
GENE SARAZEN - PLAYED GOLF UNTIL HE WAS 92, DIED AT THE AGE OF 95, AND WAS FINANCIALLY SECURE AT HIS TIME OF DEATH!!
The moral, Screw work, play Golf
source: EVENING STANDARD NEWSPAPER, p25, 19Apr2007
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