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...Austrian industrialist Wolfgang Wick resigned his nomination to the presidency of Rotary International yesterday, a week after revelation of his past membership in the Nazi party...
Some of that gas-pump speculation had been fueled by Ford's arrest for tipsy driving in California last year while in the company of Kathleen DuRoss, 36, a sometime model. Last week an attorney for Ford confirmed that the Detroit industrialist, 58, and Cristina, 46, are indeed living apart. "No action of divorce has been commenced by either party," said the lawyer, declining to discuss any reasons for the split...
During that campaign, Reagan made an emotional TV speech denouncing Big Government, foreign aid, welfare, urban renewal and taxes. He electrified conservative Republicans; after Goldwater's defeat, many looked on Reagan as their spiritual leader. Three California millionaires-Auto Dealer Holmes Tuttle, Industrialist Henry Salvatori and the late Oilman A.C. Rubel -persuaded Reagan to run for Governor in 1966. (Tuttle remains a close friend and adviser; Salvatori went over to Ford last summer...
...Industrialist Howard Hughes "was just a big, awkward, overgrown country boy" in the late 1920s. Charlie Chaplin was stubborn, arbitrary, and once bet $100 that "talkies" would never last in Hollywood. Both were part of the galaxy that surrounded Actress Marion Davies during her 32-year reign as mistress to Newspaper Tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Davies' recollections, which were tape-recorded in 1951 but locked up until her death a decade later at 64, were only recently rediscovered and published as a memoir entitled The Times We Had. Hearst, who was 58 when he discovered Marion as a chorus...
...heavy New York Stock Exchange trading. In 1971, the company wrote off a $490 million pretax loss when it abandoned the unprofitable computer business that Sarnoff had caused it to enter. At the time there was speculation that he might be forced out by dissident directors, including Industrialist Martin Seretean-who has since left the board, though he remains RCA's largest stockholder. Sarnoff has also been openly criticized for the publicity buildup that RCA gave Moffo after they married...