Word: moguls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lage of Mughal Sarai, near the holy city of Benares. His father died when he was an infant. The child belonged to the Kayasth caste, who were disdained as quislings by other Hindus because they became clerks and officials under the Moslem rule of the conquering Mogul emperors. Their reputation for shrewdness is so great that an Indian saying runs, "If you meet a Kayasth and a serpent, kill the Kayasth first...
...winnings and stud fees (up to $200 a service) of his four-legged friends. Alabama's Clyde Morton, at 65 the dean of U.S. breeders, has won eleven National Bird Dog championships, sells dogs to such fanciers as former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and British Cine-mogul J. Arthur Rank, once turned down an offer of $8,000 for Palamonium, a liver-and-white pointer that won the 1956 and 1959 Nationals...
...shades of the Ancient Mariner!-the debut was dampened by another hard-luck story. Off Hewlett Point lay a disabled cabin cruiser with smoke pouring from its engine compartment. t was the Bobbilee II, owned by Investment Banker Robert Lehman, and aboard as Lehman's guests were Movie Mogul Samuel Goldwyn and his wife...
What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. In Houston, there are the helicopter-sized mosquitoes that infest the ballpark. Washington's Joseph Burke picks on TV: "If the team is losing, people naturally stay home and watch the tube." Judge Robert Cannon, counsel for the Major League Players' Association, says it's all the fault of the baseball fan's economy. "Unemployment is high and money is scarce," says Cannon. "The guy with the big family can't afford to take his kids to the ball game as often as he once...
...beginning to dig in too. The Plain Dealer's previous editor, courtly Wright Bryan, 58, who came to Cleveland ten years ago from the editorship of the Atlanta Journal, lacked the authority that Vail can wield simply by virtue of his heritage. The great-grandson of Mining Mogul Liberty E. Holden, who founded the paper, Vail was born in Cleveland and schooled at Princeton, where he won honors in political science. He went to work for the News in 1949 as a police reporter, after eight years switched to the Plain Dealer for grooming...