MOST VALUED MAN.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5508, 2 December 1929, Page 1

MOST VALUED MAN.

INSURED FOR MILLIONS. OTHER VALUABLE POLICIES. There is at least one man in the world whose little finger is worth more than the whole estate and expectations of most of us. Paderewski, whose hands are insured for £12,000, once injured a little finger, and received £lOOO. Kubelik’s fingers are insured for £4500.■ The man whose life is most highly' valued —from an insurance point of view at any rate —is Mr John C. Martin, vice-president of the CurtisMartin Newspapers, Incorporated, of Philadelphia. Policies on his life are worth more than £1,900,000. Mr Rodman Wanamaker, the head of a great chain of stores in America, who died last year, was said to have been insured for £1,500,000. Then the most precious legs belong to Mistinguette, “the Queen of the Moulin Rouge.” They are insured for £200,000. 0 Little Tich’s feet were insured, and conjurors, cricketers, and others often take precautions against suffering any professional handicaps. Charlie Chaplin has appealed to the United States Court of Appeal to insure that his baggy trousers, ill-fitting shoes, shrunken coat, and little stick are copyright. It has been decided that they must not be copied. Many people just now have insured against having bad weather on their holiday, and less opulent fathers often take out a policy against the somewhat doubtful joy of being presented •with twins.