Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taurum forces soon include as engaging a set of oddballs as ever evaded a Saroyan play. There is Bill Kilk, "the twelfth-richest man in the country," who manufactures "KwiK, The Lightnin' LaKsative" and "Hairum-Skarum (takes the bristles off women's legs)." There is Merry Bell, Washington's hostess with the mostest billingsgate on the tip of her Bryn Mawr tongue. There is the wily "Eye." a private detective who flunked his FBI physical "because of dirty fingernails." and acts as a special investigator for the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Documents." And there...
...private life of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, often rumored to be the richest man in the world, was as heavily shrouded from the public gaze as the vast, subterranean oil pools on which his huge fortune was built. Gulbenkian, a square, bald man of medium height and undistinguished mien, liked it that way. "I have only one friend," he said once, "and his name is solitude." Last week, in the spacious, ornate Lisbon hotel suite where he lived since 1942, Calouste Gulbenkian, 86, slipped quietly out of the world of the living, still grasping the hand of his only friend...
...most of the others: some $2,500,000 of Monaco's state funds were deposited in its coffers. In the eight years since he opened his bank, the favor of autocratic Prince Rainier and his top advisers had made johnny-come-lately Liambey one of Monaco's richest...
...Rath has a certain appeal. Though he strains visibly. Author Wilson never lifts His administrative czar Hopkins off the literary blueprints. As a fable of the "tense and frantic" '50s, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit catches a little of the social transiency of Commuterland, where the richest nomads in the world fold their $15,000 and $25,000 tents and move on in the family Buick to more exclusive oases. Unfortunately, too much of the novel verges on upper-middle-class soap opera baited with tune-in-tomorrow-for-the-next-upsetting-episode slickness. Author Wilson...
...burn to the ground without insurance. On her first day as a switchboard operator, "she nearly electrocuted herself and was home in time for lunch." But a job selling roller skates at Macy's pays off. She meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, "the richest man under 40 south of Washington, D.C." She visits her husband's ancestral plantation, Peckerwood, meets his evil-tempered old mother, and trails a fox hunt in her hus band's Duesenberg. "I just hope I won't be sick when they kill that poor little fox," she confides...