Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Craig Price, the financier hero of Robert Ruark's new novel, makes such a point of drinking, uttering menaces, shooting lions and helling about with women, that one suspects him of wearing a toupee-all that chest hair can't be real. At any rate, he is a...
Basement Beginning. Her story of her career reads like the schmalz she sells. A Berlin postman's daughter. Use was 17 when she went to work as a secretary for UFA, prewar Germany's movie giant. A few years later, when she switched to the Monopol studios, she...
Lively & Dedicated. Even by Africa's standards, Drum is an improbable magazine. It began its real growth in 1951, when it was taken over by a onetime Royal Air Force pilot, London-born James R. A. Bailey, son of the late Sir Abe Bailey, South African financier. Jim Bailey...
TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho arrived at Rio de Janeiro's Central Jail to cover the capture of slippery Financier Lowell Birrell, and found the police studying earlier TIME stories on Birrell, easily convinced them that he should be allowed to interview the prisoner, who put on a tie...
Died. Eugene Meyer, 83, publisher, board chairman of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, who served his country with distinction: governor of the Federal Reserve Board (1930-33), first chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), first president of the World Bank (1946); in Washington. At 57, Meyer capped a...