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Married. Paul Mellon, 40, onetime banker, horse breeder who races a stable of steeplechasers, son of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon; and Rachel ("Bunny") Lambert Lloyd, 37, daughter of drug (Listerine) and razor-blade (Gillette) Tycoon Gerard Barnes Lambert; each for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, doing some election-year thinking about a presidential candidate, spoke out for the magazine Advertising Age: "There are 10,000 businessmen who would be a better President than any of the men now considered." The interviewer wanted to know if he included himself. Mr. Young nodded...
...wedding reception preceded the wedding, too. A goodly segment of café society was there: the Duke & Duchess of Windsor; "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the restaurant world's most famed pretender; onetime Glamor Deb Brenda Frazier Kelly; Rail Tycoon Robert R. Young and his wife; and the Marquess of Blandford...
...biggest tycoon of the lot, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s Walter S. Carpenter Jr., took time to write the longest letter, four single-spaced pages packed with some hard sense about salaries. What it came down to, Carpenter told Complainant Benson, was this: How much did the company profit on the high-priced executives-and how much were they worth in the going market? As for Du Pont executives, he wrote: "I believe competitors . . . would be willing to pay . . . as much. . . . I believe the company's interest is better served by paying that compensation than...
...about the world trying to put the financial pieces together (Dawes and Young plans), knew and advised the world's powerful (Clemenceau, Lloyd George). He made a pile of money (reportedly $500,000 in 1931), gave piles of it away, epitomized the U.S. ideal of the public-spirited tycoon...