Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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-Though he has little in common with the stereotype Texas millionaire, Troy Victor Post, 56, a reserved and bespectacled Dallas financier, can swap success stories with any wheeler-dealer. Raised in a farm shanty, Post was an insurance agent at 20, and at 27, with $138 in cash, formed his...
The Hughes Problem. Even if the merger should win the consent of the White House-which by law has final say on U.S. airline operations abroad-there would remain what TWA President Charles Tillinghast glumly calls "the Hughes problem." Unpredictable Financier Howard Hughes, who apparently has his heart set on...
He hears new aphorisms from his bene factor's mistress ( Nadia Gray). "Life is an auction." she tells him. "Men put up their muscles or their brains, women their bodies. It's all the same." Sellers finally comprehends. Putting up his brains, trimming his beard, he pursues what...
Burdened by Abstractions. Since the Utilitarians taught them to value only what can be put to use. Americans no longer appreciate a thing in itself. They are immersed in abstractions. Kerr insists, and have lost touch with life in the raw. Modern abstract art mirrors abstract lives; so does the...
Chancellor Branscomb took over in 1946. He put in nine years of dealing with the cliquish, 44-man board, and then persuaded Harold S. ("Mike'') Vanderbilt to accept the presidency and lead the school back to the role that his great-grandfather had charted for it-strengthener of...