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Four years ago, Moore, now 41, entered the first big deal to put him all over the map: he merged with a Southwest bus line owned by Texas Tycoon Clint Murchison (TIME, July 21, 1947) and with another line, owned by the Santa Fe Railroad, which had routes in a dozen Midwest and Western states. (Murchison still owns 26% of Continental; the Santa Fe and Moore's original group own the rest...
...youth. When Research Chemist Gary Grant and his wife (Ginger Rogers) drink some of this magical potion, they promptly revert to adolescence. Gary gets himself a crew haircut, a loud sport jacket and a fire-red convertible. Ginger, turning into a giggly jitterbug, slips a live goldfish into Tycoon Charles Coburn's trousers and plants a custard pie under his posterior...
...Trinidad nightclub entertainer who is described as "a woman with a capital W." This sentiment is roundly endorsed by Glenn Ford, who plays the older brother of Rita's husband, an artist found dead under mysterious circumstances. Another admirer of Rita's is suave Alexander Scourby, a tycoon who keeps mad dogs on his estate and is given to poring over super-rocket plans in the company of various gentlemen with Iron Curtain accents...
...address each other by such endearing terms as "panther girl" and "white fang" when they are not being lovey-dovey on the air, dispensing commercials and "good, clean, nauseating fun"; a flouncy blonde (Zsa Zsa Gabor) who is trying to dig all the gold she can from her Texas-tycoon husband (Louis Calhern); a laconic Long Island couple (Paul Douglas and Eve Arden) who communicate with each other only in monosyllables; Mrs. Mississippi (Marilyn Monroe), a bathing-beauty contest winner, and her baby-tending husband (David Wayne); a G.I. (Eddie Bracken) from Richmond, Va. who frantically tries to remarry...
Boston's ailing Post, losing money at the rate of $12,000 a week, is the last thing most people would want to buy. But Boston's self-made tycoon, John Fox, 45, has won millions, big oil & gas holdings, and the biggest single bloc of Western Union (TIME, Dec. 3) by an unorthodox approach. "I buy securities when nobody loves them," says Fox. "The worse they look, the better bargain they are." By Fox's rule, the unloved Post looked like a bargain indeed. Last week, for a reported $3,100,000, he bought...