Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be turned over with a bang! People talk about the New York, the Boston, and the Philadelphia. Now they will talk about the New York, the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland." Thus top success was in sight for the orchestra founded 27 years ago by oil-&-steel Tycoon John L. Severance and Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes, indefatigable crusader for music in Cleveland...
Less than two years ago Mrs. Lottie Wolf, wife of Detroit's wiping-rag tycoon, hired Lipiec to build up a stable, gave him his big chance. The best way to get ready-to-run horseflesh in a hurry was to buy it on the race track's huge super-market-the claiming race...
...flying boat last week approached Buenos Aires from the east, lazily circled the city. Along the Plata estuary, 30,000 enthusiastic Porteños watched the plane land smoothly. Then out hopped the plane's proud owner and Pan American Airways' newest South American competitor, Argentine shipping tycoon Alberto Dodero...
...luck takes the angular form of Lauren Bacall, who is cast as a British coal tycoon's bored daughter. It is unhappy casting. The Bacall publicity has plainly pushed the young woman too far too fast. Neither a great beauty nor a great actress, her voice and facial expressions, both limited, soon grow monotonous. She is not even the interesting personality which careful direction made of her in To Have and Have...
Married. Charles Vidor,* 45, director of plushy, gilt-edged films (Cover Girl, A Song to Remember); and Doris Warner LeRoy, 33, daughter of cinema Tycoon Harry B. Warner and former wife of Director Mervyn LeRoy; he for the third time, she for the second; in Hollywood...