Word: dreamers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Heritage (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Inventor Eli Whitney's struggles and achievements get full hearing in The Practical Dreamer, starring Burgess Meredith. Color...
Alchemistic Search. The initial secret of the Krupp success was failure. The founder of modern Kruppdom, Friedrich, was a turn-of-the-19th-century dreamer, prophetically dedicated to an industrialized Germany. He spent his life in a quasi-alchemistic search for "the secret of casting steel," processed more irony than iron in his foundry, the Forge of Good Hope, and died at 39 of dropsy and despair. His son Alfred was later to find and filch the sought-for secret from British forgemasters while posing as a frivolous visiting baron, Herr Schropp. After he set the Essen smokestacks belching, Alfred...
Power & Ruthlessness. The history of the House of Morgan is almost the story of U.S. banking. Founder J. Pierpont Morgan was a great builder and dreamer who helped build the U.S.-and grew so powerful that he helped run it. Morgan left his father's London banking firm at 20 to try his own luck on Wall Street. After acting as agent for his father's firm, he went into business for himself under the name of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He performed dazzling feats of finance one after another. His method was to buy control of banks...
...later became a director of the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan, was eulogized in 1957 by the Current Digest of the Soviet Press as "one of the founders of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia . . . founder of the scientific school of Soviet power engineering, a dreamer and poet...
...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill's early American alcoholic innkeeper may be more gabby than necessary, but an evening with the doomed dreamer (Eric Portman) adds up to fine theater...