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GERMAN AUTO TYCOON Friedrich Flick will add the nearly bankrupt Bavarian Motor Works, West Germany's seventh largest automaker, to his Daimler-Benz empire, already the Continent's biggest carmaker. Taking over B.M.W., Flick will get two fast-selling small cars, the midget Isetta and the new B.M.W...
...tensions of an approaching air raid, Shaw achieves for a time a kind of magic. But even here, more in the style of an old morality play than an English Cherry Orchard, it is the dawdling leisure class Shaw spares when the bombs fall, and the thief and the tycoon that he kills...
...goal by developing a top-drawer liberal arts college to match its excellent technical schools. Oakland has the plant and the men for a good start. Most of the sweeping 2,000-acre campus was given to M.S.U. two years ago by the widow of Auto Tycoon John Dodge and her husband, Lumberman Alfred G. Wilson. Value of the land and the 125-room Wilson mansion: about $15 million. When the Wilsons added another $2,000,000 to the gift, astute M.S.U. President John Hannah appointed Vice President Durward B. Varner, 42, as chancellor and gave...
...crisis came on the sleek, white, 322-ft. yacht of Greek Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 53. Onassis, too, was a man who knew the value of money. Starting as a night telephone operator in Buenos Aires, he had taken shrewd advantage of a wave of deflation to build one of the world's largest tanker fleets and accumulate a fortune of about $300 million. Love brought him more money in the shape of Athina (Tina) Livanos, beautiful daughter of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Livanos and sister-in-law of Millionaire Shipping Czar Stavros Niarchos. The glow of the Onassis...
...tycoon Larrabee, Bogart has the appropriate earthiness that was last seen in Robert Ryan's portrayal of Gatsby. He is very good in the role. (Casablanca addicts will probably get a kick out of seeing Bogie sailing with his girl on the Sound and humming Boola-Boola...