Word: tycooning
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Taking office as his city's 29th mayor, San Francisco's shipping tycoon (American Hawaiian-Steamship Co.) and longtime leading citizen Roger Dearborn Lapham, 60, made a promise: "I shall not run for mayor again. I am glad of that pledge because it gives me an inner freedom of mind which I could not otherwise have...
...Paul Dubonnet, wife of the aperitif tycoon, once noted as "the best-dressed woman in Europe," renewed her pistol permit in Manhattan. She has been packing a rod ever since gunmen tried to rob her in a cab four years...
...command the commercial respect of Hollywood. There are two reasons: 1) Britain has been turning out enough four-bell films so that U.S. movie fans do not automatically look the other way when a British label turns up; 2) a tall, dark, retiring Briton named Joseph Arthur Rank. Tycoon Rank is 55, well preserved, and lives as simple a life as any man can with a 48,000-acre estate-Sutton Manor, in Hampshire-and another home in Surrey...
Strange Outing. One day in midtrial, Banker John Anderson, friend and confidant of Sir Harry's, took the reporters on an excursion to Hog Island to admire Shangri-La, the fabulous estate of Swedish tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren. U.S. and British black listings keep this nimble friend of Millionaires Hermann Goring, the Duke of Windsor, Sir Harry Oakes and many another in Mexico for the duration, but the reporters found 17 gardeners tirelessly pushing back the lush jungle growth, awaiting the end of the war and the master's return. One or two reporters wondered whether the excursion...
...Manhattan, dark, scowling Utili-tycoon Samuel Wilson Murphy, president of huge Electric Bond & Share Co., wound up his annual stockholders' meeting last week with a solid challenge to partisans of Federal power. His down-to-earth suggestion: private capital would be glad to buy up publicly-owned utility plants (now one-eighth of the industry), thereby giving the Government 1) billions for debt retirement; 2) annual millions in tax revenues...