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...MONEYMAN (434 pp.)-Thomas B. Costain-Doubleday...
...their publishers, know what they are up to. Author Shellabarger's Captain from Castile sold over 1,250,000. Thomas B. Costain is the man "who gave you The Black Rose" (sales 1,344,000). Now each gives the Renaissance a lush and wordy going-over. The Moneyman, Book-of-the-Month Club special "midsummer" choice,* is 15th Century France. Prince of Foxes, Literary Guild choice for August, is 16th Century Italy...
...Yankee bosses brimmed with dollars and ideas. Supplying a heavy piece of change was slender, soft-spoken Del Webb, ex-minor-league pitcher who 16 years ago moved to Phoenix, Ariz., parlayed a saw and hammer into a million-dollar construction business. The other big moneyman was Marine Corps Captain Dan Topping, heir to a tin-plate fortune and owner of the Brooklyn Football Tigers.* The man with the ideas was baseball's brilliant screwball, redheaded Colonel Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail -who aging ex-Boss Ed Barrow once said would buy the Yankees "over my dead body...
...know that somehow they must stabilize their currency. If Belgium succeeded by the deflationary route, she would have performed this difficult operation in one shocking amputation. Few European countries are likely to follow her example. The hardheaded Dutch next door will have none of it. Said one top Dutch moneyman: "The plan is psychologically dangerous; because you can't force people into virtue. It's technically too difficult to administer." Dr. Johan Beyen, Dutch delegate to Bretton Woods, said Holland plans an orthodox savings drive to sop up inflationary cash, stringent wage & price controls and a retroactive...
...Moneyman Howard Hughes and TWA President Jack Frye collaborated on the original plans. They intended to keep the plane a dark secret. Her costs were not even entered on TWA books; Moneyman Hughes financed her privately...