Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cyrus S. Eaton's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (at a profit of $2,400,000 to the C. & O.). The friendly buyers were Clinton W. Murchison, 58, of Dallas, whom Texans proudly describe as "really a wheeler-dealer," and Sid W. Richardson, 62, of Fort Worth, often called the richest man in oil reserves...
...their knees and suppress their curves. The New Look of the '20s was the look of Coco Chanel; from it and the sale of dresses, hats, perfumes, handbags, junk jewelry and almost anything else that fashionable women chose to buy, Coco herself became one of France's richest women...
...richest men in the U.S. (estimated daily income: $200,000), Texas Oilman Haroldson Lafayette Hunt has already pushed into radio and TV with his nationwide Facts Forum programs (TIME, Jan. 11). He also puts out a monthly house-organ Facts Forum News, which goes free to a mailing list including Congressmen, radio-TV stations, newspapers, commentators, etc. Last week word got out that Oilman Hunt had bigger publishing ambitions. To Manhattan he had sent a representative to try to buy two big national magazines, monthly Coronet (circ. 3,565,122) and biweekly Collier's (circ...
...lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
...Hailam L. Movius Jr., associate professor of anthropology, spent last summer excavating one of the most important archaeological sites in Europe--the Les Eyzies Paleolithic deposits in southwestern France. Even in civilized France, however, the anthropologist meets his vicissitudes. The site hardy family of Freshfarmers, and "It's the richest site I've ever seen," says Movius wistfully; "Someday I hope the Peabody Museum will...