Word: tycooning
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...appear) came lumbering up the carpeted central staircase that was reserved for the bridal party. An alert guard decoyed him to one side. Seated way up front was Britain's frail old Author Somerset Maugham, complaining of cold feet. Near by sat swart Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping tycoon, whose ownership of the gambling casino is a far more significant fact in Monte Carlo than the rule of Prince Rainier. Filling other rows were the aging, wheelchaired Aga Khan and his beauteous Begum, the French Academy's Andre Maurois, Broadway's soignée Ilka Chase...
...school in Washington, D.C. as a $900-a-year clerk in the U.S. Patent Office. He joined the FBI in 1934, quit nine years later to head investigations of skulduggery in World War II shipbuilding and postwar surplus-ship sales, saw his work culminate in heavy fines against Greek Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis and others. In 1951 he became the top-ranking career man in the Maritime Administration, with the title assistant deputy administrator...
...giants of the oil business squared off last week for a fight to dominate Canada's natural gas industry. In one corner was Clint Murchison, the flamboyant Texas oil tycoon (TIME, May 24, 1954) who bosses an empire of companies with assets of about $400 million. Against him was Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, 53, multimillionaire Canadian who began as a $4-a-day driller and rose to be a leading operator in Western Canada's spectacular oil boom. The big stake in the contest between them: a franchise to build a $350 million pipeline to carry Western...
Died. Frank Jay Gould, 78, youngest son of the late buccaneering railroad tycoon, Jay (Black Friday) Gould, who boosted the $10 million inherited from his father to a reported $100 million; at his villa, Soleil d'Or; in Juan-les-Pins, France. Francophile Gould moved to France in 1913 for a "temporary residence" that lasted for 43 years, made a fortune in race horses and real estate, turned the quiet backwater of Juan-les-Pins into a famed international...
Fortunately the characters spend little time making speeches. Gregory Peck as the man in the gray flannel suit, Jennifer Jones as his wife, and Fredric March as the tycoon all do a great deal for their roles. Peck's is the toughest part. He gives a more than adequate performance as a man who acts decisively and honestly out of a strong self-respect--which is what his boss most lacks--without being especially superficial. Jennifer Jones and Fredric March skillfully manage dramatic scenes which in other hands might invite disaster. With scarcely an exception, the minor characters--like...