Sunday, August 06, 2006

Langer's Imperial Past

From the same Forbean Times article:

Few people know this; but L Springer grew up in Imperial Singapore. His family, like the rest of the Brits, was caught cat-napping by the Jap invasion. The young Springer was forced to live on the streets – scrounging for scraps from locals and eating rats till captured breaking into a pharmacy in search of morphine. Of his experience in the Jap camp, the crypto-Buddhist Springer was once quoted as saying: Nothing is forgiven, nothing is forgotten.

After the war, Springer had immigrated to the States where he proceeded through a unique brand of drive and devil may care to accumulate a vast fortune from stationery products and photocopying machines before branching out into other media…

3 Comments:

Blogger maldoror said...

Would these 'other media' include copper?

12:44 am  
Blogger sp said...

Sure, he's got a thing going with the Chinese.

6:40 pm  
Blogger maldoror said...

Don't we all.

1:16 am  

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