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Show millionaire Who Backed 'Death Valley Spotty' Dead HOLLYWOOD'; CALip-The man who grubstaked Death, Valley Scot-ty Scot-ty for 30 years died recently. Albert Mussey Johnson, 72, former president presi-dent and chairman of the board of the National Life Insurance company com-pany of Chicago, built Walter E. Scott's two-million dollar desert castle. Scotty, legend had it, owned a secret desert mine from which he took gold as he chose, but in 1941 a lawsuit revealed that Scotty' s wealth was a myth, that he owned no mine, never sold a dime's worth of gold and didn't own the castle he occupied. occu-pied. "I've lent him considerable money over a long time and he has paid me back in laughs," Johnson once said. |