Word: tycooning
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After gold and silver were discovered in California, Telegraph Tycoon J.W. Mackay brought in three tons of silver from the Comstock lode and had Tiffany's make it into 1,000 pieces of table silver. One day President Lincoln dropped in to pick up a strand of pearls for the First Lady. Diamond Jim Brady earned his nickname with Tiffany diamonds, and an admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany...
...onetime Hollywood queen and longtime friend and helpmate of Newspaper Tycoon William Randolph Hearst last week talked about her "current consuming interest": real estate. Said Marion Davies, now fiftyish: "Land is the most important thing in the world because it's God-given, and should be developed...
When the sanitarium caught fire, Zelda died in the flames. At 39, Fitzgerald "suddenly realized that I had prematurely cracked, cracked like an old plate." He recovered enough to write part of a novel about Hollywood, The Last Tycoon, which might have been his masterpiece. But when he had reached the middle of chapter six, a heart attack ended his life at 44. Almost nobody came to the bare funeral home where his body lay. But his old friend Dorothy Parker did. Her hard-boiled epitaph, too strong for last week's radio show, echoed Fitzgerald...
...French impressionists and easy-to-take early works by Picasso, Matisse, Dufy and Chagall. The boom got under way soon after World War II, but the event that proved the market's strength, art dealers now agree, was the sale of Department Store Tycoon Gabriel Cognacq's collection on May 14, 1952. Before the day was over the auctioneer had heard closing bids totaling 305 million francs ($871,428), a postwar record. In last month's Paris auctions, the steadily rising market raised a question: it was not how sound is the boom, but how high will...
...last week Boston Real Estate Tycoon Abraham Malcolm Sonnabend, 58, happily extended his right hand, firmly shook his own left hand. He thus Approved a deal to let his restaurant chain, Childs Co., buy three Sonnabend hotels -Manhattan's Plaza, Boston's Somerset and Cleveland's Cleveland-and make himself a potful of money...