Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hang out down the line a piece. The Tropicana supplies Crosby wives wholesale.") Impeccably turned out in silk suits, ruffled shirts and elevator shoes, Gary, Lindsay, Philip and Dennis Crosby bounce onstage to prove that the Groaner's kids can make it on their own. But their father is far from forgotten. "Well," growls Gary after one close-harmony number, "that's pretty good for four boys trying to get ahead without the old man's money." After another effort, Mack the Knife, Gary remembers Bing again: "That's the most applause...
Born Marco Spinelli in Pittsburgh (his father is an Italian count, but Marco will not inherit the title, blandly admits that his use of it is "crass and commercial"), wispy, mustachioed Count Marco, 41, is a widower, an ex-actor (he played the fool in Twelfth Night), ex-producer of television soap operas, ex-hairdresser. His column "Beauty and the Beast," smirkingly instructs San Francisco housewives on all manner of boudoir-and-bathroom behavior. A prize example...
...mastermind the family merger, Getty appointed his affable, efficient son, George Franklin Getty II, 35, who has spent only six weeks with his father since the first year of his life, still refers to him as "Mr. Getty." But his father keeps in close touch on business matters, sends him as many as 20 notes a week from abroad. George, who quit Princeton after only one year ("I knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made...
...moved up from vice president to president of the world's biggest cotton dealer, Anderson, Clayton & Co. of Houston, replacing Harmon Whittington, who retired under pressure at 59. McAshan, an Anderson, Clayton regular since he left Princeton ('27), is described by Founder Will Clayton, his father-in-law, as having "the quickest mind and greatest curiosity of anyone I've encountered." The shift marks a return to power of courtly, fiercely competitive Will Clayton, 79, onetime U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, who retired as chairman of Anderson, Clayton in 1950-only to see sales start to move...
Marcel Proust was all but ready to retreat to his cork-lined room himself. His father died of a stroke in 1930s, and his mother had less than two years to live. Proust had been dismissed by the critics as "one of those pretty little society boys who've managed to get themselves pregnant with literature." In the next 17 years, puffing at antiasthma cigarettes and doping himself with Trional and morphine, he would salvage 34 years of wasted time with a masterpiece...