Word: tycooning
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...G.B.S. has included almost every one of his favorite types; there's the self-made S. B. Clemens-ish Tycoon, the capable Mother, the daring Young Thing, an impossible Suitor for her, a pious Burglar, a graying Aristocrat, and, of course, the "independent" Foreign Lady who can comment caustically on anything the home-bred figures miss. And, then, they all talk--Lord, how they talk: two straight hours of chatter as each character rises hungrily in turn, like a guppy at the food in a goldfish bowl, to strike his pose and horrify at least a good 1/9th...
Particularly so, fortunately, is Robert McEntire, the Tycoon. Mr. McEntire struts roguishly and confidently, smoothing his hands over his assumed paunch and twinkling devilishly at everybody as he enjoins them didactically to "Read Pepys' diary," "Read Marcus Aurelius," "Read Walt Whitman." So, too, the ever-capable Paul Barstow, now the Aristocrat, an ex-governor and F.O. man: he gestures with the monocle, is dismayed and contented both with proper peerish disdain...
...member of the Disciples of Christ and onetime graduate student at Oxford who reads his Bible in Greek, Miller is also a moneymaking tycoon with a personal fortune that tops $100 million, the owner of a company (Cummins Engine) that builds more truck diesels than any other on earth, plus a bank, a cornstarch company and a chain of supermarkets. When he speaks to businessmen, they listen. Currently conducting his own mission to millionaires. Miller has spoken with effect to groups in Manhattan, Chicago, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Phoenix and Amarillo...
...Avalon Foundation, founded in 1940 by Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon* and ex-wife of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's David K. E. Bruce, gave $500,000 to endow a new chair in the history of science at Yale. The Avalon Foundation has made grants totaling more than $25 million since its founding, including $2,500,000 to Manhattan's Lincoln Center and $1,100,000 to all 86 U.S. medical schools to supplement scholarship funds...
...Among them Columnists Stewart Alsop and John Crosby, steamship-banking-airline Tycoon J. Peter Grace Jr., Princeton Dean J. Merrill Knapp, M.I.T. Professor Walt Rostow (now a White House adviser...