Word: tycooning
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...Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon the studio head Monroe Stahr, worried by union activity under his nose, orders the screenwriting department to send him a two page "treatment" of the Communist Manifesto. No doubt many of the blacklistees never read any more Marx than Stahr did, but they found that they had to pay for it later. The most remarkable and admirable thing about the Hollywood Ten still, is that they took responsibility for their past and showed a willingness to proclaim their ownership of a collective legacy of principle. Some smart guys think they should have done things differently...
...pilot, soon gravitated into another form of combat: Rhodesian politics. In 1961, when he was chief whip of the ruling United Federal Party, Smith resigned his seat in protest over a proposed constitution that accepted the British demand for greater black representation in government. Backed by an ultrarightist tobacco tycoon, Douglas ("Boss") Lilford, Smith helped found the Rhodesian Front Party, which won the national elections in 1962 on a "white rights" platform. Smith became Prime Minister in 1964 and soon set Rhodesia on the dramatic road to breakaway from Britain...
Died. William Zeckendorf Sr., 71, high-flying New York City real estate tycoon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Working with some of the world's leading architects, Zeckendorf built such monuments as the Mile High Center in Denver and Montreal's Place Ville Marie. But the wheeling and dealing backfired in 1965 when his firm, Webb & Knapp, went bankrupt with a debt of nearly $15 million...
...costs about 75? to make. But Sears, Roebuck, J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward all carry the Lifeline jump rope (plus its special exercise booklet) for $4.95 a throw. These days, legions of Americans who are neither little girls nor prizefighters are jumping rope-and making Bobby Hinds an instant tycoon...
...most lavish affair was thrown by Candy Tycoon Charles H. Price II and his wife Carol, whose own fortune is based on holdings in Pepperidge Farm, Campbell Soup and Swanson. The Prices opened up their richly furnished two-story penthouse "The Walnuts," in the Country Club Plaza section of Kansas City, to 210 guests, including many of the town's leading citizens. Hallmark Card Owners Joyce Hall and his son Donald were there, as were civic-minded Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., for whose father the convention arena is named, and Henry Block, head of H & R Block...