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Shirt Sleeves. There is nothing of the big business tycoon about Roy Grumman in his office. As soon as he gets there, he takes off his coat. Then he props his feet on the desk or an open drawer, puts a pipe or cigar in his mouth, and is ready to make all the Hellcats the Navy needs...
Bolivia's revolutionary Government, all spruced up and awaiting U.S. recognition, last week let super-rich Mauricio Hochschild out of jail and prepared to deport him. Jailed for counter-revolutionary plotting, the tin tycoon had escaped worse punishment by promising to keep out of Bolivia and her politics. Tricky Don Mauricio had always managed to keep a potent hand in Bolivian affairs (TIME, May 8). But President Gualberto Villarroel's regime evidently felt strong enough to deal with him in one way or another...
...lookout for some choice Crosby records ever since he lost his collection in the fire that destroyed his home last year, was reported by Columnist Harrison Carroll to have tracked down an out-of-the-way Ohio collector with 22 of them. Purchase price (to the croon tycoon): $3 apiece...
...Bradley, 20, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Bradley, commander of U.S. ground forces in France; and 2nd Lieut. Henry Shaw Beukema, 20, son of Colonel Herman Beukema, West Point's geopolitics expert ; after his graduation at West Point. Married. Barbara Jean Douglas, 21, only daughter of Plane Tycoon Donald Wills Douglas; and Lieut. William Bruce Arnold, 25, second son of General Henry ("Hap") Arnold, Army Air Forces chief; in Los Angeles. Married. Band Leader James ("Kay") Kyser, 38, schmaltzy "Professor of Musical Knowledge"; and Georgia Ann ("Gorgeous Georgia") Carroll, 24, onetime highest-paid Powers model ("The Chesterfield Girl...
...Brothers Skouras. Tycoon Skouras is used to speaking of the movie industry as "our industry." With his equally famed brother, Charles, 56, boss of National Theaters, one of the three biggest U.S. chains, and George, 49, head of Skouras Theaters Corp. (85 houses), he controls a large chunk of it. The Skouras brothers climbed together. All were born in Skouro-chorion, Greece (meaning: Skourasville). Charlie came to the U.S. first. As a newsboy, dishwasher and bartender, he soon earned enough to send for the others. He settled Spyros into a job as bus boy in St. Louis' Planters...