Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...humble hat-check girl with grand-opera aspirations, Deanna is yanked to the bedside of a dying tycoon (Charles Laughton) by the old walrus' son (Robert Cummings), who has mislaid his new fiancée. Of course the old man recovers, and the substitute fiancee has to continue her role until the young man falls in love with her and makes it permanent. The picture is a blend of amusing horseplay, bright dialogue and tears, with a noticeable...
...Calling it "The Squared Circle," in three issues she filled the right-hand side with pro-Roosevelt editorials. The left-hand side was filled with pro-Willkie editorials by her husband of two years, Harry Frank Guggenheim, 51-year-old copper tycoon, ex-Ambassador to Cuba, aviation patron. ("My husband is traditionally a Republican. I'm not traditionally anything...
...main purpose of Il Mondo was to undercut the biggest two Italian dailies of the U.S., Il Progresso Italo-Americana and Correire d'America, owned by New York sand and gravel Tycoon Generoso Pope. For Publisher Pope has often been accused of hobnobbing with Fascist bigshots, of employing Fascists on his editorial staffs, of printing pro-American editorials in English and pro-Mussolini editorials in Italian...
...original idea was that of an imaginative press syndicate head, David Yaffa, who sold it to Australia's liveliest publisher, youthful (34), two-fisted Frank Packer. Gold-mining tycoon Frank Packer is co-owner of Australia's Consolidated Press, Ltd. as well as publisher of Australia's most up-& -coming paper, the Sydney Telegraph...
Left. By the late Mont Tennes, onetime Chicago horse-track news tycoon: about $5,000,000; from it, $10,000 a year to a boys' "character home" to be called Camp Honor, $2,000 a month to his widow, $700 a month to each of his four children...