Word: tycooning
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...most luxurious hotels. A favorite of aristocrats, diplomats and cinema stars, it has been host to the likes of the King of Nepal, Adlai Stevenson, William Scranton, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands and Groucho Marx. The Savoy also captured the fancy of a darkly handsome British real estate tycoon named Max Rayne. Two years ago he bought one-third of the hotel from William Zeckendorf, later bought the whole thing when Zeckendorf became even harder pressed for cash. Last week representatives of Rayne's London Merchant Securities Ltd. concluded an agreement for a huge and shrewd real estate deal...
Died. William Keck, 84, oil tycoon, a crusty California wildcatter who hit it big near Los Angeles in 1922, went on to make his family-controlled company, Superior Oil, one of the world's largest independent producers and to amass a $250 million fortune, the small change from which he used to support such causes as those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy; in Los Angeles...
...ridge of the Ramapos on the west side of the Hudson, 48 miles from Manhattan. Known as "The Rock" to the hundreds of presidents, vice presidents and general managers who have studied there since the program began eleven years ago, Arden House is the former barony of Railroad Tycoon E. H. Harriman. In 1950 Eldest Son W. Averell Harriman gave the $5.5 million neo-Norman castle and its 100 acres of parkland to Columbia. Alumnus Averell and his brother Roland picked up the tab for converting the old homestead into a conference center (item: a new roof...
...chiefly a showcase for the ingenuity of M-G-M Makeup Artist Bill Tuttle. His marvelous disguises often do more for Randall than Randall does for them. And Producer-Director George Pal embellishes the fantasy with a dragged-in plot about a villainous prairie tycoon who schemes to buy up the whole town before folks find out there is a railroad coming through. And that's when the cookie crumbles...
Divorced. George Capron, 79, Los Angeles real estate tycoon (860 acres on Laguna Beach); by Ednah Race Capron, 74, who until now ran his household on a budget of $300 a month; on grounds of cruelty (he denied her a nurse last year when she broke her leg); after 55 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: half his fortune, or $16 million, highest award in California history...