Word: megalomaniacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Akin to Hollywood's picture business is the business of retailing. Glossy, high-priced executives move from store to store, accompanied by troops of favorite underlings. Terms like "genius," "snake," "megalomaniac," are indiscriminately applied. Last week, in the gossipy lianas of the trade, the No. 2 U. S. retailer of general merchandise was getting more than his share of epithets. His name: Sewell Lee Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward...
...stagehand who did not like to see his name in print." Among producers, his pet annoyance is the Shuberts. No great admirer of Billy Rose, he admits that Rose is a pressagent's Dream Boy because "he scorns dignity in favor of delirium." His favorite producer is megalomaniac Jed Harris because Harris is cyclonic, unpredictable. "All female stars," adds Maney, "have one thing in common: after you stand on your head to arrange an interview, they break the date because they have to have their hair washed...