European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By William Inman United press International puffs of ice and wind Buffet a night flying Boeing its engines straining against Gravity and a sudden Atlantic the Takeoff is but smooths out Quick the lights of Manhattan fade like the Moon cuts a Hole in the chill the Airship and its imperturbable cargo head aboard the private Jet is Armand chair Man of Occidental the worlds largest inde pendent Oil a Veteran storm Hammer has outlived the upheavals of modern times and enriched himself in the Hes the worlds wealthiest doctor valued at Between million and a billion yet a doctor who never patched a hurl nor drafted a prescription an arc capitalist who Hobnob bed with princes and and built empires on Angus and the misfortunes of a my secret of Success Hammer no i work i take advantage of Hes be come a master to Hammer is a contradictory mix of Tough Ness and intuition and impulsive anger and Calm a Gambler who wins More than to competitors Hes Hes a Oneman conquering huffs a rival Oil he wants he goes out and gets to hell with the rules of the this Day has been a Long one 21 grueling hours of Deal making and handshake the itinerary began in Manhattan with a predawn television appearance it ended in a dizzying limousine ride to a quiet and darkened new Jersey but Hammer is still Sharp at 2 he readies for a last interview aboard his Californi abound his much younger than is my work keeps me he hard work and discipline bring Luck belongs to the Man who puts in Long hours and Long he Hes in his Clement amid the mahogany splendor of his airborne to the plane Nick named Roxy 1 is although hardly respite from Many of his most critical conferences Are held Hammer puts More than Miles of flight a year on this million custom fitted its land patched Telephone is an instrument of Power in his enabling him to reach out and touch sub ordinates at any location his personal phone Bill a reputed Hal million dollars a tonight he forsakes his favorite cuisine do the colonels Kentucky Fried attendants dont dare substitute other i can Tell the he tells another vice he sneaks them when aides Arent Roxy 1 features lounges fore and a Wall map lit with global Gold plated bathroom fix life support equipment including a heart de Fibril a vault with a refrigerator stocked with Maine lobster and a bar with dont drink he although 1 made plenty of it for at one Hammer was one of the nations largest he attributes his vigorous health to Good i that is an the physical demands on this octogenarian Are its not unusual for him to Jet Halfway across the Globe three or four times in As Many Hammer travels several limes a year into China and the russians customarily provide a Copilot and he bought his full length Mink coat from Saks fifth Avenue just for the Chilly russian its bitter cold now in he the cold est Winter in the Mink was the coat he wore for the funeral of Yuri Andropov a year it was also the coat he wore during his round of appointments in Snow swept Man those appointments Start Early at cbs1 studios on West morning show hostess Phyllis George wants hammers assessment of East West rela Hammer arrives plumping Down limply in a network anteroom where makeup is in dont bother with he Hur Rumps to the makeup soon Hes escorted into the main his Demeanour changes the years Van his face he sits waiting for questions from hammers first wife was a stunning woman named Olga von daughter of a czarist he met Olga during his first visit to bolshevism Russia in the he took her with him when he fled to Paris and later to a fashionable fifth Avenue but he and Olga came to an amicable their life styles were just too Hammer met his second wife during the world War Page 14 the stars and stripes Armand Hammer the millionaire doctor who never written a prescription Oil tycoon Hammer displays his a Vinci the last in Public up Armand influential in International is a Friend of world ii her name was Angela she loved parties and sailing aboard armands the Shadow but she had a drinking says that grew worse in in the he moved away from her and their Home in red unable to endure the Humilia Tion her drinking the divorce was not but he won on grounds of mental Hammer does not care to talk about but the divorce did Lead to his happiest one that Frances Tolman read of the divorce in the police Gazette so she she wrote Hammer and asked if there was anything she could in january Armand and Frances were mar Hammer moved to los her where they built a comfortable life around the pastel hues of the great impressionist paintings she Frances was different from the she had her own Fortune and her own but was willing to share the Busy life of her she often travels into Russia and China with Hammer has a special link to even though he is no his new York physician Julius was a founder of the american communist i dont accept says i know our system gives us the highest Standard of living in the communism simply Doest Hammer had a better head for business than he took Over his fathers failing pharmaceutical firm at age he changed the name of the company from Good laboratories to the More impressive Allied chemical and drug and found an Angle that made his first the Angle was Hammer cornered the world alcohol Laden medicinal tincture of Ginger fizzled up a great making a nifty substitute for liquor during the dark Days of 1 must have been pretty Good at he deadpanned for students at the Barnar Columbia Center for world i was probably the Only millionaire in medical but Fate beckoned i heard of a great typhus epidemic in the soviet and while waiting for my internship to Start at Bellvue Hospital in new i decided to go to Russia to help he bought a surplus army Field Hospital and an ambulance full of drugs and shipped out to the windswept hammers family left Russia Only two and three generations coming Home to the War ravaged Moth Erland was to the suffering he offered a million bushels of american wheat in Exchange for hides and cavi i soon Learned that the real enemy was not the russians needed not the russians agreed to the Swap and word filtered Back to Vladimir who summoned the Brash Young Doc Lenin Rose from his desk and came to meet me at the Hammer he was smaller than i had expected a Stocky Little Man about with a Large dome shaped wearing a dark Gray soft Collar shirt and Black his eyes the year was Lenin was at the height of his but when he Hammer he seemed he told me communism was not that the soviets were changing to a new economic policy and that they needed businessmen to help with this Tran As for the lenins Brown eyes filled with Hammer was offered the Job As chief foreign con perhaps it was at that historic meeting Hammer cemented his abiding Faith in the value of top level of Trust building Between Bosses of the say what you want about he the fact of the matter is that it is and it will stay we have to Deal with Hammer he soon represented 38 companies including Parker Underwood and Allis All Trade Between the soviet Union and America went through my he Hammer gained the Concession for a giant Asbestos mine in the and created one of the worlds largest Pencil smuggling vital expertise and technology from Fabers Ultra secret German opera the next venture for Bearteet Taler Hammer was to plunge into the whiskey it was a matter of he knew prohibition  last and the nation would need barrels to hold its he was his barrels of imported russian White Oak were snapped up by Schenley and Fred Gimbal told him not to Stop at barrel distilling Stock was the Hammer found an Angle in rotting he bought up warehouses of surplus Maine Pota toes and blended the potato squeezing with Grain it made a tasty concoction and was cheap to one thing led to Hammer Felt his Mash residue would make a nutritious cattle feed and bought a Herd of Black Angus cattle to try it he liked Angus in time he built the worlds largest Angus but one trophy eluded it was a world Champion Bull named Prince his initial bids fell but a tip from a travel ing veterinarian gave him another apparently the Prince had been overworked and was no longer interested in the opposite Hammer made a new conditional on an inspection of the bulls during a Field Hammer immunologist that he was into a he saw the Prince was a All i could see through the Microscope were Bills swimming he Hammer eventually bought his and each of the bulls progeny easily brought on the open at this Point Hammer thought about it was hed been married and divorced twice and Russia was largely closed to the he moved to California with but retirement lasted Only a few he bought Mutual broadcasting signing Walter win Chell and Kate Smith to soon the crush of another Enterprise forced him to sell his interest in the Enterprise was a tax its net Worth was to the consternation of his tax Occidental struck one of the larg est Gas Fields in within three decades the corporation was it was in collaboration with buddies John Paul Getty and Roy who gave Impe Tus to North sea a venture that endeared him to Britain Royal a Token of that esteem is displayed in his Home a snapshot of Frances holding Prince Wil autographed pictures of Williams Prince Are in hammers new York and los Angeles another Brilliant stroke was in where Hammer personally Cut a Deal with King Idris to pump Oil in Exchange for bringing water to the Occidental is still Welcome in foam mar khad Afy soviet friendships eventually blossomed into a billion the russians got Occi dental got raw Potash and not that All of hammers projects have been a proposed billion merger with Diamond Shamrock was scuttled in january by nervous Mem Bers of shamrocks another project failed to strike pay dirt the conversion of Rocky Mountain shale into soviet deals have also been Hammer was in the Kremlin when the soviets invaded of Brezhnev told him the red army would definitely withdraw just As soon As order was is but Carter disagreed and ordered a general embargo that still hampers and Occidental Hammer rises each Day before the 7 Hes at the office scanning reports on european and South american before settling Down to he pores Over the los Angeles the new York the Wall Street journal and morn ing news in rapid he knocks off dozens of phone getting updates on projects and pet charities world by Hes ready for his a fixture of his Hammer takes cat in the Middle of a Busy Hammer will Duck into a spare will you excuse me for a few minutes he returns rested and his colleagues is his ability 10 maintain an open he is brutally honest with demanding the same of his hell fire the Man who suppresses bad says one col Hammer divides his of work hours among he is on International and a trustee of the los Angeles county museum of to which he has willed his vast collection of painting his drawings will go the National hammers greatest frustration has been his struggle to build a Bridge Between the Reagan changed last Hammer i think Reagan now wants to reach an agreement with the i think that Why he put George Shultz in Complete charge of the Geneva arms talks and selected Max Kampelman As head Kampelman is that Means Reagan is Hes out to make a if Rea Gan makes an agreement with the he can get it through the Senate where Jimmy Carter could Hammer has other he wants a can cer cure in his Hes head of reagans can cer Board and sponsor of the prestigious Hammer which awards Cash to scientists who significantly Advance Hes promised a million dollars to the Man who finds the magic Bullet against anecdotes abound about who got his from the Lover of not baking one such is the Story of his Kremlin of fice is now a National untouched since his a few years Hammer was Given a his guide pointed out a Small it was a Given Lenin in of a Monkey contemplating a human Lenin gave orders that the Bronze was never to be removed from his he was struck by its symbolism the Prospect that Man might forget reason and practicality and destroy himself in a conflagration of Hammer knew lenins feelings the statue after his March the stars and stripes Page 15