Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journalist, Demarest has savored vicariously the indulgences of the moneyed, covering such gathering places of the wealthy as Manhattan's Palace Restaurant, where he attended a $500-per-head prix fixe dinner; the Duke of Bedford's bashes; and sundry Sotheby sales, where the rich auction off their baubles. One millionaire Demarest met lived on the ocean liner Ile de France-crossing and recrossing the Atlantic. Demarest speculates that the eccentric bon vivant, keeping up with the times, now lives aboard a Concorde. "Of the newly rich people I have known, few seemed really fulfilled," says Demarest. "Others...
...very agency, as his documentary describes, that for more than a decade tried to assassinate the man he was interviewing. At the end of their hours together, Castro asked the reporter if he would accept the CIA job. Moyers promised that he would still be a journalist when they met again. "That'll be better," said Castro, who had a brief fling as a muckraking reporter in Havana before the revolution. "Journalism is beautiful...
...success ethic. Regardless of the route, those who are making it to the top seem to share a number of personality traits. As a group, the hot new rich work extraordinarily hard. They are more willing to take risks than the average citizen. Many are loners. And, notes Journalist Arthur Louis, who has been FORTUNE'S fortune watcher for the past decade, "none of the self-made rich I've ever met seemed to be stupid and just lucky...
Field believes that the young relationship in the early '40s was uneasy because both writers were at awkward stages in their careers. Nabokov's European reputation had yet to transplant itself to America. Wilson the literary journalist was just becoming Wilson the critic and man of letters. Furthermore, says Field, Wilson often chose to play the brooding Russian, while Nabokov played the easygoing American. The following conversation is reported to have taken place in 1942 - Wilson: "Do you believe in God?" Nabokov: "Do you?" Wilson: "What a strange question!" According to Field, the friendship ended in 1954, when...
Died. Carlos Lacerda, 63, fiery, flamboyant anti-Communist journalist, publisher and politician; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. As governor of Guanabara state, which included Rio de Janeiro, he vociferously supported military leaders in overthrowing President Joao Goulart in 1964. Briefly thereafter a contender for President himself, he eventually, in 1969, was stripped of his political rights for opposing the military regime...