Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, Chicago chicle and baseball tycoon; and Helen Atwater Wrigley; a first son, third child; in Chicago. Name: William...
Pigeons and People (by George Michael Cohan, producer), subtitled "a comic state of mind in continuous action," runs in one long act like Philip Barry's Hotel Universe. A benevolent insurance tycoon comes back to his apartment trailed by an elderly, jaunty bum named Parker (Actor...
Cohan). Found on a park bench chatting familiarly with the pigeons, the bum has told the tycoon a story of his life. The tycoon, astounded by a renegade with elements of greatness, offers Parker hospitality, grudgingly refused. A neat plot, promising an idea play, skitters at that point into Pirandello-echoing lunacy...
Meanwhile Lady Bailey, seasoned pilot, wife of Sir Abe Bailey, diamond tycoon, was missing in the Sahara. She had been trying to break Amy Johnson Mollison's record of 4 days 7 hr. from London to Cape Town. French army planes found her the fifth day, in desolate country southeast of Gao. She was suffering from thirst, exhaustion, influenza...
Susanne was a baker's daughter and she had a hard time at home. She was almost fed up enough to run away when young Otto Hellenberg, son of a rich ship tycoon, invited her to a party on his father's yacht, let her make herself ridiculous, tried to seduce her. That settled it: she left town the same night. Susanne had a good head on pretty shoulders and she had enough money to keep out of the gutter. As entire domestic staff for the household of a Chief of Police she got along beautifully till...