Word: tycooning
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...Rockefeller. John D. Rockefeller Sr. was "still a dapper, youngish man with cordial American manners," when Santayana watched Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession with him. But when Santayana visited his friend Charles Augustus Strong (a Rockefeller son-in-law) at Rockefeller's house in Lakewood, N.J., the tycoon had aged, lost his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes, and wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they don't sell enough...
Keating's creators were small, witty James B. Hill and big, sandy-haired John L. Eckels, advertising-agency copywriters. They dreamed up Keating to win an argument that political bigwigs are built by publicity, that they could create a tycoon in their own business out of thin air. They spent $4 on letterheads, sent publicity releases to newspapers and magazines, invented companies and clubs for Keating to address. When the American Newspaper Publishers Association and Dun & Bradstreet Inc. requested financial statements, Authors Hill and Eckels decided the hoax had gone far enough...
Indiana's ham-handed Homer Capehart, the phonograph tycoon, could not wait to don the toga. Six weeks before his senatorial term begins, he bustled into Washington, promptly called a press conference. To newsmen, he was vague on one subject-his international views. He was more specific on another: his Senate committee ambitions. He has his eye on such topflight assignments as the Finance, Commerce, Naval and Military Affairs Committees. On each of these subjects, he confided modestly, he is something of an expert. Back in their offices, the 15 newsmen who had shown up for this "sneak preview...
...Unease. Reginald de Koven did not need the money. A graduate of Oxford and a famous cotillion leader in the salons of Florence and Paris, he boasted an ancestry that included three colonial governors, a wife who was the daughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, Chicago dry-goods tycoon. Reggie wore a monocle from the age of 15. When he built his Tudor mansion on Manhattan's Park Ave nue between 85th and 86th Streets (it still stands), he dressed himself as Sir Walter Raleigh and gave a mammoth housewarming, serving up a boar's head...
...Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster, who are among the younger and more aggressive publishers, but not too young to have moneybags under their eyes, will continue to run S. & S. Young President Robert Fair de Graff,* 49, who owned 51% of Pocket Books, will continue to manage the company. Tycoon Field denied that he plans to use his millions to flood the U.S. with $1 books. He merely intends to provide "better and better books for more and more people...