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...reinvested it in Florida industry, becoming one of the world's wealthiest men, worth an estimated $350 million; in Miami. With backing from Banker Brothers Andrew and Richard B. Mellon, Davis helped found Aluminum Co. of America in 1907 as the nation's first aluminum producer, became Alcoa president in 1910, board chairman in 1928, and ruling with desk-thumping autocracy, built Alcoa into an industrial giant with assets of $503 million before retiring from active management in 1948 to start a second career. Buying some 100,000 acres in the Bahamas and Florida, he farmed some...
...Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Series Host Fred Astaire stars as "Mr. Lucifer" in a comedy about a kind of Madison Avenue Satan...
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...During his 37-year rise from traveling geologist for Aluminum Co. of America, scholarly Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 61, learned to eat monkey meat and acquired a command of the Dutch Guiana pidgin known as Takki-Takki. But since he was named Alcoa's president two years ago, Litchfield's studies have been less exotic: under the tutelage of Chairman Frank Magee, 66, he has been mastering the art of managing a major corporation under tough competitive pressure. Last week, Magee turned over to Annapolis Graduate Litchfield ('20) the duties of chief executive of the world...
...Alcoa Premiere (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Richard Kiley stars as a doctor who is the target of a $100,000 malpractice suit. Fred Astaire is host and narrator...