Word: tycooning
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When Sorbonne students spot an empty lecture hall, they rush in like beggars after a tycoon's cigar butt. Lucky ones perch on worn wooden benches, using their laps for desks; others stand or squat in the aisles. The rooms smell; the lighting is dim. The typical Sorbonne lecture hall holds only half the students enrolled in a course. Sitting in a remote stairwell just within earshot of the podium, one girl recently sighed: "The other day I raised my head and actually saw the professor...
...through stock brokerage with a knack for winning important friends. Making himself useful to other like-minded coyotes-including Banker Anibal de Iturbide and Insurance King Manuel Senderos-Trouyet cut them in on his deals, in turn was let in on theirs. Last year he persuaded Textile Tycoon Je-ronimo Arango Sr. to join him in buying a 55% stake in the big old Orizaba textile company-fully appreciating that Arango's three sons run Mexico's largest discount retailing chain (TIME, Feb. 8) and would provide a fine outlet for Orizaba's garments...
...collection of some 2,000 costumes, one of the finest in the world. It was assembled during the past 80-odd years by a number of donors, but the best of the clothes were given by a dedicated spinster, the late Elizabeth Day McCormick of Chicago (granddaughter of Reaper Tycoon Cyrus McCormick), who ranged Europe and the U.S., skimping on taxis and her own clothes, to buy a total of some 20,000 costumes, pieces of embroidery, books and prints, all of which she left to the museum...
Long Chance. Such fast moves in the past 40 years have transformed Sam Mosher from a frustrated California farmer into a successful tycoon. Struggling with his first love-raising fruit and flowers-Mosher ruefully decided that prospects might be rosier Southern California's oil fields. With $4,000 borrowed from his mother and a Government instruction booklet to guide him, Mosher in 1922 set up a small plant in Long Beach's Signal Hill oil field to wring a motor fuel ingredient out of the natural gas pumped out by the big oil companies...
...means that Hero Burton, the violently jealous millionaire the heroine is married to, will surely catch up with them. Orson Welles, a celebrated film director, has tax problems, and delay beyond midnight means that about ?300,000 will be legally lifted out of his pocket. Rod Taylor, a tractor tycoon, needs a financial transfusion to save his corporate life, and delay means debacle...