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Married. Elizabeth Chambers Firestone, 31, oldest daughter of Rubber Tycoon Harvey S. Firestone Jr.; and Charles F. (for Fountain) Willis Jr., 35, aide to White House Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...buckboard with a kegful of gold pieces between his knees, left behind a trail of $50 bills whenever he hit town. In 1941 Scotty broke down and confessed that the gold mine was a myth; he had been grubstaked "for laughs" by the late multimillionaire. Chicago Insurance-Tycoon Albert Johnson...
When Fair Dealer Chester Bowles, onetime ad-agency tycoon, onetime OPA administrator and ex-governor of Connecticut, asked Harry Truman for the ambassadorship to India, he let himself in for some unexpected complications. Spending their first night on Indian soil, Bowles, his wife and their three younger children huddled together in one room of Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, awed and made uncomfortable by the five barn-sized rooms of the viceroy suite, in which their attendants had distributed them. Bowles faced his first formal call on President Rajendra
Authorities agree that there are certain programs of formal preparation which the aspiring banking tycoon should follow, whether his bank he located on Wall Street or on Main Street. A large portion of the potential banker's college program should be devoted to the liberal arts. Whereas some concentration in economics is advisable, most banks claim that the principles of banking and business are best learned by practical experience. Although these banks give a very slight preference to Economics concentrators or to men with a Master of Business Administration degree, all accepted applicants, whether experienced or tyro, undergo bank training...
GREEK shipowners who bought surplus U.S. vessels despite the law banning such sales to aliens are in for more trouble from the Department of Justice (TIME, Sept. 14). This week a grand jury indicted Greek Shipping Tycoon Manuel E. Kulukundis on the ground that he illegally bought U.S. ships through a series of subsidiary U.S. corporations. Federal agents are planning to seize the 10,172-ton tanker S.S. Sweetwater and some 24 other ships allegedly owned by Kulukundis...