Word: gulbenkian
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...Tarbell, the muckraking journalist who exposed the unscrupulous tactics by which he did so. Later the series highlights less celebrated but equally colorful characters: people like Columbus ("Dad") Joiner, the Texas wildcatter who sought money by scouring newspaper obituaries and writing mash notes to wealthy widows, and Calouste Gulbenkian, the powerful Middle Eastern oil broker who was reportedly so suspicious that he had two sets of doctors, one to check up on the other...
...which he was shut out. Dividends from investments in solid securities also added to his fortune, which was amply sufficient for his extravagances. He drove about in a custom-built gold and black car, designed to look like a London taxi and powered by a Rolls-Royce engine. Cracked Gulbenkian: "I like to travel in a gold-plated taxi that can turn on a sixpence-whatever that...
...London party, he flew in a troupe of belly dancers from Turkey. Married three times and twice divorced, he remained childless. He had a superior attitude about good food and wine. The perfect number for dinner, he said, was two-himself and a headwaiter. In all he did, Gulbenkian remained a flamboyant refutation of the notion that the burden of having money dims the joy of living...
...elder Gulbenkian, as miserly as his son was profligate, employed Nubar for a time without salary. This arrangement ended in 1939 after Nubar billed the company $4.50 for a lunch of chicken in tarragon jelly, which he ate at his desk. His father refused to allow the expense, and Nubar sued for $10 million, which he felt was his due on grounds that his father had defaulted on a promise to give him a share of the business. The litigation was withdrawn by Nubar, and when Calouste died in 1955, he left almost his entire fortune, estimated...
Died. Nubar Gulbenkian, 75, eccentric scion of oil-rich Calouste Gulbenkian (see BUSINESS...