Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Boston, Stanton Griffis was a prizewinning orator at Cornell. He raised apples for a while in Oregon but gave that up for Wall Street, where he became a banker, a promoter and a tycoon. In 1920 he moved in on Lee Tire & Rubber Co. In 1933, with Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium, he acquired control of Madison Square Garden. He helped pull Paramount Pictures out of a $100 million hole, along the way picked up Brentano's book stores...
...seemed to care least how much he spent was rival Movie Tycoon Harry M. Warner. He bought the apple of L.B.'s eye, a soft-eyed filly named Honeymoon, for $135,000. Then Warner, afflicted with the same fever Mayer once had, paid the evening's top price-$200,000-for Stepfather, a Kentucky Derby hopeful...
Little A (by Hugh White; produced by Sam Nasser) is a story of the turning worm-suddenly up against a hissing cobra. Little A, as middle-aged Aaron Storm is called, is a kindly, sensitive man who was first overshadowed by Big A, his tycoon father, then squashed by his contemptuous, ambitious wife. He has come to loathe her, and when he learns that their son is really his father's, he is spurred to action. Her world threatened, his wife speedily emerges a fine old-fashioned villainess, and Little A becomes melodrama with a big M. The curtain...
...played ball with the Nazis and now wants the Americans to let his closed machine-tool factory go full blast; there is his stiff-necked Prussian sister (Blanche Yurka), his still violently Nazi son-in-law (Tonio Selwart). There is Theodore Bruce (Walter Greaza), a visiting Chicago tycoon who, because business is business, would give Benckendorff cartel blanche; there are various indifferent, homesick American soldiers and officers; and there is Lieut. Colonel Woodruff (Thomas Beck), whose tough occupation job is to stabilize and denazify the Bavarian town...
Appropriately, the deal was signed in a nightclub. U.N. delegates would get a glittering skyscraper headquarters along the East River. New York would get U.N.'s prestige and cash. And no one was happier about it all than a jet-propelled real-estate tycoon named William Zeckendorf. He had planned it that...