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Scrambling fact in a free-for-all of oldtime comedy styles, Magnificent Men invents a Great London-Paris Air Race in the year 1910. The competition, sponsored by British Publishing Tycoon Robert Morley, soon becomes a contest between a rugged U.S. barnstormer (Stuart Whitman) and an airborne English aristocrat (James Fox), each determined to win the day and the tycoon's daughter, Sarah Miles, precisely the sort of flibbertigibbet Josephine who might lose her heart-and through frequent entanglements, her hobble skirt-to a daring young man in a flying machine...
Bombproof Pits for Isaiah. Almost all the funds that built the museum came from the New World. The $800,000 Shrine of the Book was bankrolled by the Gottesman Foundation, named for the late Pulp-and-Paper Tycoon Samuel Gottesman. The U.S. Government has contributed $830,000 and the Bronfman museum was a $2,000,000 birthday gift from the children of the 70-year-old Canadian liquor magnate. Billy Rose estimates that his garden cost $1,600,000. But no one seems to mind a bit that this whole art complex lies within gunshot of the barbed-wire border...
Like a character in an oldtime western serial, Real Estate Tycoon William Zeckendorf has ridden his ailing corporate steed, Webb & Knapp, Inc., through a series of cliffhanging adventures and crises. Somehow he has managed to avert disaster each time with an ingenious plan or a daring, last-minute rescue. Last week Bill Zeckendorf, 59, found himself in the worst trouble of his spectacular career. With no rescue in the script this time, the end seemed finally in sight for a saga that has endlessly fascinated and amazed the business world...
Breasting the tape at 19 ft. 5 in., the LTD limousine is clearly poaching in Cadillac's backyard. For approximately $9,000 or $2,300 less than a Caddy limousine, the poor man's tycoon gets air conditioning, seating room for eight (with two jump seats) and 300 horses that, Ford claims, will run as quietly as the next man's Rolls-Royce. The extras include a tiny Sony TV and a Princess phone. The LTD already has 50 firm orders, will begin rolling off the assembly line by the end of the year...
Tognazzi extravagantly portrays a hat tycoon who seems to have his head on crooked, for he is married to Claudia Cardinale and seldom thinks of anything but sales figures. Then one night a friend's wife starts pawing the earth in his vicinity. She suggests that they meet at the country hotel where she always has her hair done. "Well, you're faithful to your hairdresser," Tognazzi shrugs philosophically, and takes up the challenge as best he can. In the film's funniest scene he drives home from the as signation at great peril, checking his throat...