Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both cities are dominated by local business oligarchies, but the business men who run Dallas do it better. That former trading post's relatively orderly development could give it the long-term economic edge over Houston. "Dallas will probably be stronger," says Trammell Crow, a real estate mogul with stakes in both cities. "There's no reason to relocate in Houston unless you have...
...stardom. Fifty years ago, it was difficult to spot a potential movie star in a body that photographed small, frail, bewildered. Fred and his sister Adele had danced through hit Broadway shows for a dozen years before Adele's marriage to an English lord, but to a movie mogul their stage success could be attributed to snob appeal and second-balcony myopia. In close-up Fred looked-and, in moments of earthbound repose, acted-like Stan Laurel. Thus the famous pronouncement on Astaire's first screen test...
...later learned that he is helping out one of his buddies, and making the only living he could in 1963. Roger Corman, B-movie mogul and director of Nicholson's first picture, Cry-Baby Killer (1958), "directed" The Terror--it was filmed in three days, using leftover sets and props from the recently completed The Raven with Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price...and Nicholson. And Sandra Knight? Jack had married...
...millions he's earned . . . he lives in that dream world of his, with people like . . . the Sidney woman telling him how great he is." The solution: Ad became one of Hollywood's top agents, a status she solidified one afternoon on the casting couch of the mightiest mogul of them all, Louis B. Mayer. She paid Budd 25? and up for every certified classic he read as a kid, and he acted out her cultural aspirations. But he seems to have vaguely disliked her meddling ways, just as he seems to have vaguely liked his always distant father...
...life of this variety yields a wealth of anecdotes and portraits told in his characteristicly elegant manner. Galbraith's insights into the characters of the famous men of the era are few, but he profiles several lesser-known individuals to delightful effect. Henry Dennison, a maverick New England business mogul of the 1930s and Leon Henderson, Galbraith's Hemmingwayesque superior at the OPA stand out particularly...