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Word: fortunee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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But in 1941, when Alla herself returned from Broadway to live in one of her own villas as a paying guest, an era was ending. The old faces were fading fast; the place was soon overrun by roaches and call girls. The last big spender was a happy drunk from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of the House Party | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

After losing his first fortune (earned as a reorganization lawyer) in the crash, Rosenberg made a second fortune from law, then turned to philanthropy. Now an 84-year-old gentleman-of-action, Rosenberg still sings out loud and clear for good causes of all kinds. Passionately devoted to his people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carpets to Joy | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

"One Dollar Down." The new lord of the Kemsley chain has a manner about as gentle as that of a bull moose ("I do what I like," he booms. "What I like is running newspapers and TV"). Son of a Toronto barber, Roy Thomson started collecting his fortune when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bull Moose on Fleet Street | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

AMERICAN businessmen must now take the role of the businessmen-diplomats of 50 years ago." Few men practice their preachments with more determined zeal than the author of those words, Norman Kenneth Winston, 59, an impish-faced, meticulously dressed man who ranks among the world's biggest builders (more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Businessman-Diplomat: The Businessman-Diplomat | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

We have made a virtue of moderation that we may limit the ambitions of the great and may console the mediocre for their want of fortune or ability.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: LA ROCHEFOUCAULD: SAGE & CYNIC | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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