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...while, they liked to listen to John A. T. Galvin around San Francisco. He often regaled cocktail parties with fascinating tales of his past. Such as the time he bought a shipload of calcium compound in the Orient and made huge profits selling it to natives as a remedy for diarrhea. Or the time he cornered the Malayan tin market. Or the time he interviewed Mao Tse-tung as an adventuring reporter in China during...
...Galvin never really got down to details about his fortune, estimated at $150 million. He moved to suburban Woodside in 1955, proceeded to splash about in the social life there. He made quite a hit at first-entertaining lavishly on his estate, allowing the horsy set of Woodside to canter over his acres. He gave $50,000 to build an indoor riding ring at Stanford University in nearby Palo Alto. Even when the university turned down a daughter for admission, Galvin let the contribution stand...
Soon Woodside got to thinking this was all a bit too showy. "Typical nouveau riche" sniffed a neighbor. Hurt, Galvin packed up his Irish-born wife and five children in 1958 and moved to a 35,000-acre ranch near Santa Barbara. Ostensibly, he wanted to offer riding room for the U.S. Olympic riding team, of which his daughter Trish was a star. That seemed fine-until last October, when John A. T. Galvin abruptly shut down the ranch, closed down the school he had started for his children, loaded up his prize Irish horses and left for Dublin...
...ELECTRONICS. Parts manufacturers, such as Texas Instruments, faced with heavy Japanese competition, tend to be for pro tection. But Motorola, which does hand somely by using Japanese transistors and other components in some of its radio and TV sets, is all for freeing trade. Says Motorola President Robert Galvin: "In the final analysis, the U.S. industrialist will be far more interested in a potential world market of 2 billion customers than in a domestic market of 180 million." ∙MACHINE TOOLS. Manufacturers who produce only standard tools are pinched by foreign imports, and dread increased competition. Makers of special equipment...
Marelli's son, R. Terence Galvin, does some of the finest acting in the play; only his haste in speaking spoils the naturalness of his performance. A group of construction workers in one of the play's flashbacks deserves praise, as does Eric von Salzen, who plays an effete actor with wit and great skill...