Word: tycooning
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Presidential aides pointedly said that Nixon wanted no help from anyone in meeting his tax obligation. Bruce Herschensohn, the presidential assistant assigned to work with groups supporting Nixon, claimed that his telephone rang repeatedly all week with offers. One came from Chicago Insurance Tycoon W. Clement Stone, who contributed some $2 million to Nixon's re-election campaign. He said he would be willing to give enough money to pay the whole tax bill because "Nixon is the greatest President of the U.S. ever." Nancy Davis, of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that "as many people as possible send...
...widowed when her handsome Irish American husband, U.S. President Jimmy Ryan, is struck down in mid-term by a heart attack. Struggling to make ends meet on $30,000 a year, she finally selects her sister's lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract-but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves his weeping bride alone with her 60-carat diamond ring for the bed of his true love, world-famous Ballerina Ludmilla Rosenko. Susann denies that Dolores is a roman à clef but adds...
...National League club owners unanimously agreed yesterday to sell the San Diego Padres to hamburger tycoon Ray A. Kroc, apparently ending months of controversy over the club's ownership...
...official at Palm Beach International Airport. The short, gray-haired man in the blue sports outfit had just stepped off a silver-gray and blue Olympic Airways Learjet, which had stopped for refueling on a flight from Acapulco, Mexico, to New York. But it seems that Greek Oil Tanker Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 67, had failed at a simple piece of domestic scheduling: his Shell Oil credit card was out of date, and Ari had no charge account with Butler. So while he coped with the necessary paper work to have his card renewed, Wife Jacqueline ordered up bacon, lettuce...
Levine, who was billed as the "last tycoon," encountered initial major success with the promotion of "Hercules" in 1959, which grossed over $9 million. He was the first to distribute foreign films on a national scale, and he promoted a number of Vittorio DeSica's films including "Two Women...