Word: tycooning
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...openers, they look like a winning pair of Jackies, one the actress, the other the Onassis. Jacqueline Bisset, 31, having signed up to portray someone very like Jacqueline Onassis, 46, in a European-made movie, The Greek Tycoon, confessed to reporters that she did not know much about the deal other than that 1) she was "moved after reading the script," and 2) "It's not the greatest role in the world." She may have second thoughts, since the tycoon will be played by that world-famous non-Greek, Anthony Quinn...
Died. Jean Paul Getty, 83, oil tycoon and one of the world s wealthiest men; of heart failure; in Surrey, England (see BUSINESS...
...ladies who take pen in hand are not irresistibly attracted by the blue of my eyes," confessed Oil Tycoon Jean Paul Getty, who, after five wives, still receives marriage proposals by mail. "The magnetism I exert is of another color -green, the hue of my purported wealth." Small wonder. Getty, 83, in an introduction to his forthcoming autobiography, As I See It, estimates his net worth at well over $ 1 billion and that of his family at "about twice again as much." J.P. disclosed that to avoid the sort of inheritance scramble that followed the death of Fellow Billionaire Howard...
...films embodying the consciousness of the left wing of the New Deal in the 30s and 40s, films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and State of the Union. But Capra also made comedies and while It Happened One Night Colbert is the spoiled daughter of an over-protective tycoon and Clark Gable is the down on-his-luck newpaperman who undertakes to smuggle her from Florida to New York so that she can rejoin her husband, but ends up falling in love with her. Gable shocked a lot of people when this film came out, by appearing bare-chested...
Director Michael Rubbo has one too, low-keyed but keen and honest. He accompanied Sterling and Smallwood, waited with them in Protocol Residence No. 9 (identified as "the former residence of an American textile tycoon") for the greatest event of the trip to happen: an audience with the Premier himself. Sterling and Smallwood had been promised some time with Fidel, perhaps even a whole day. Smallwood prepares yellow pads full of questions for Castro. Sterling stays looser, anticipates the meeting less as an ideological confrontation than as a social coup...