Word: tycooning
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...long has this been going on?" asked the late advertising tycoon Albert Davis Lasker (onetime head of Lord & Thomas), one afternoon in 1943. Before him, set up on easels in Manhattan's Wildenstein galleries, stood a $70,000 Gauguin and a $45,000 Renoir. For the man who made such products as Lucky Strike, Palmolive, Pepsodent, Kleenex and Kotex into household words, the world of art was opening. On hand to coach and whet his appetite was his wife Mary, who had majored in art at Radcliffe, gone on to help run a Manhattan gallery...
Five-Goal Man. His book is a kind of flying prayer rug hovering in programmed flight over nearly every aspect of th, U.S. scene-from the birth of the blues to the death of the tycoon, from the flight to the suburb to the fight for collective bargaining, from the 'rise of the immigrant to the decline of premarital virginity. Columnist Lerner (he is also professor of American civilization at Brandeis University) has retained the old, deadening habits of speech-"vested power groups," "acquisitive society," "Barons of Opinion," "cult of property." His book is essentially a gigantic rehash...
Married. Cyrus Stephen Eaton, 73, silver-haired Cleveland tycoon (steel, iron ore, coal, railroads); and Cleveland Socialite Anne Kinder Jones, 35, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1946; both for the second time; in Northfield, Ohio...
...jump the gun half-cooked"), Lahr got away with bushels of bad jokes ("I was married, but now I'm estranged." "I'm a stranger here myself"), some broad-farce ribbing of stockbrokers ("I don't want to sell-might make the market nervous"), and a tycoon's diet of "caviar espresso, codfish benedict, vanilla mousse hollandaise," that prompted one hotel guest to remark, aptly: "I think he may be a Martian...
...later, prodded by Theater Owner Marcus Loew, he merged his two companies with Producer Sam Goldwyn's studios to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The ex-junkman confidently made himself production chief. With Irving Thalberg, his brilliant assistant (and the model for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon), Mayer set about remaking the motion-picture industry...