Word: tycoons
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Possibly the most hazardous, certainly the least comfortable sport in the world, transatlantic sailing appeals mostly to men .who, if they must live dangerously, have to supply their own danger. Biggest boat (72 ft. overall) in the Newport-to-Bergen race was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Caviar Tycoon Vadim Makaroff. Next biggest was Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade...
Opened in 1912, Muskegon's art gallery was named in honor of that Medici of Muskegon, the late Charles Henry Hackley who left $150,000 in 1905 for it. A lumber tycoon who at one time used to strip 30,000,000 feet of timber a year from Michigan woods, he dearly loved Muskegon, also gave the town a public library, an endowment fund, a manual training school, a hospital, a public park dotted with statuary. The Hackley Gallery has only recently begun to develop. Besides the Curry Tornado, it owns a Whistler, a Hogarth, a Blakelock, many good...
...years Reporter Howey was city editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, founded by Charles T. Yerkes as a political houseorgan for that tycoon's traction schemes. When the paper had done its job, Yerkes presented it to his editor, George Wheeler Hinman, with an electric light plant in the Loop for good measure to pay the paper's bills. Into office went Mayor Fred A. Busse, good friend of the Chicago Tribune and of Samuel Insull, who wanted the competing Hinman light plant eliminated. When Mayor Busse started to put the Hinman plant out of business, Publisher Hinman...
...claimed to have found bits of glass in his favorite drink, the Coca-Cola Co. last week summoned Curator Perry Wilbur Fattig of the Museum of Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.). Curator Fattig, with the blessing of a university which owes most of its wealth to the late Coca-Cola Tycoon Asa Candler, hurried off to a courtroom in Birmingham, Ala. By the time he arrived, looking like a sunburned Julius Caesar in a Palm Beach suit, the case had been settled out of court. But Curator Fattig, determined to do his part, smiled proudly at the judge, crunched and swallowed...
...friendship, because if you had not, good taste would have prevented my doing so. . . . There certainly would be something wrong with me if I did not get a tremendous kick out of that." Also very much on hand was big, beefy Colonel Jacob Ruppert, ably pressagented brewer and baseball tycoon, who contributed $20,000 and some beer to the $1,500,000 Byrd Expedition and had his name put on the supply ship which the Government threw...