Word: industrialist
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...last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced proudly that the Velásquez was theirs, admitting Wildenstein had bid on it by arrangement with them. Met Director Thomas Moving explained that the bulk of the money came from a fund set up back in 1917 by Isaac Fletcher, industrialist-banker, who stipulated that it should be used only for purchases...
...household word-but it cannot guarantee that the household will vote for him. Too many other factors determine an election. No matter how much he might have spent on campaigning, it is most unlikely that Barry Goldwater could have defeated Lyndon Johnson for the presidency in 1964. In 1970, Industrialist Norton Simon, despite a bottomless purse, could not win the Republican senatorial nomination in California from the vulnerable, venerable incumbent, George Murphy. Regardless of his gifts, or the size of his war chest, a Republican candidate for Congress in Mississippi starts with two strikes against him; so does anyone...
...Better. It is still too early to assess McCloskey's chances of mounting an effective primary campaign. Money is a problem, although such diverse financial angels as New York Philanthropist Stewart Mott, California's Norton Simon and Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton have expressed interest in his campaign. He has received more than 30,000 letters of support from across the country, but realistically admits that it will take a much greater groundswell to put him across...
Dressed in one of the old man's custom-tailored suits and toting a valise full of elegant haberdashery, he looks like a successful young businessman between jobs. At least that is what the young wife of an old and ailing industrialist thinks when her limousine bruises...
...Chance the gardener" is heard by the woman as "I am Chauncey Gardiner." When she brings him home for first aid and her husband asks Chance about his business, the simpleton's candid replies are interpreted as wise metaphors. When the President meets Chance while visiting the industrialist, he asks his opinion of the depressed stock market. "In a garden," says Chance, "growth has its season ... as long as the roots are not severed, all will be well." The President uses the line on TV and credits Chauncey Gardiner. The press assumes he is an economic adviser and lionizes...