Word: tycooning
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...Chicago, Earl ("Madman") Muntz, onetime used-car magnate turned television tycoon, showed further evidence of his advertising talent by announcing that he would christen his baby daughter Tee Vee Muntz...
...incurring the rage of Londoners. There is no verve in it: things merely dribble along, with Jane tiring of society and the young husband tiring of Jane. In the last act, by flanking Jane with a worldly writer who might be Maugham (Basil Rathbone) and a philandering newspaper tycoon (Howard St. John), the play manages a few rallies, but never quite comes right...
Died. Russell Allen Firestone, 50, second of five sons of the late tire tycoon Harvey Firestone and a director of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; after long illness; in Manhattan. He devoted his leisure to a series of civic-minded hobbies: the Victory Garden movement (he was a vice president), the 4-H Clubs, the Future Farmers of America...
...Marcel Boussac, French textile tycoon, the one-mile-Houghton Stakes at Newmarket, with his two-year-old colt Auriban, thus becoming the leading money-winner in Britain ($103,716) for the second year...
...sober Cagney, having risen to city editor, is drafted by Publishing Tycoon Raymond Massey to reform his drunken nephew (Gig Young), now the husband of Cagney's old girl friend. The job proves mostly a matter of getting the nephew out of gangsters' clutches. The film's crude mixture of social problem and underworld formula is epitomized in the climax: a plug-ugly points a gun at Cagney and orders him to take a slug of bourbon...