Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, relict of Millionaire "Daddy" Browning and favorite child bride of the tabloids in the '20s, said that she was going to marry her fourth. After Browning had come 1) a Denver showman, 2) a San Francisco department-store tycoon. Groom-in-prospect: Ralph N. Willson, a former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker...
...Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
Born. To Jay Gould III, 26, wartime AAFlyer, great-grandson of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould, also a flyer in his day and way, and Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, daughter of Actor Nigel Bruce: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Bruce...
Peerless Paper. Today the infant of 1846 is a giant of Fleet Street, fifth in circulation (with 1.5 million) among London's nine "national" newspapers, and known as the highbrow of the mass-readership field. Heading its high command is dry, aging Chocolate Tycoon Laurence J. Cadbury, whose father bought shares in 1901 (at David Lloyd George's behest) to keep them out of the clutches of Boer War imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge...
...sang in low cabarets, read Walt Whitman, and worked in the Quaker hospital where her daughter Lucy was born. "I would not bother with thee, Fey," said the Quaker woman doctor, "did I not know thee has glimpses of the Light within." But naughty Fey glimpsed nothing but Railroad Tycoon Simeon Tower, whom she married after divorcing Terry...