Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Elizabeth Idabelle Firestone Graham, 27, wife of Defense Commission Aide Ray Austin Graham Jr., only daughter of the late Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone; of a streptococcus infection; in Washington...
Attendance was only soso during the House debate, and slender to sparse at the Senate hearings, except when Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh appeared, to reiterate his House testimony of Jan. 23. The other headliners did poorly-General Robert E. Wood, isolationist mail-order tycoon ; isolationist ex-Governor Phil La Follette of Wisconsin; belligerent Isolationist Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune publisher. There were 22 others, from Historian Charles A. Beard to Kansan Alf M. Landon, from Military Expert George Fielding Eliot to Chamber of Commerce President James S. Kemper...
...Washington to tell a grand jury about his campaign contributions, thin, knife-faced Tycoon Lammot du Pont backed off when cameramen began an encircling movement. Explained Photophobe Du Pont: "One time I received a letter asking for the loan of $15,000 from a fellow who said he had seen my picture in the paper and knew I would give him the money because my face was 'so kind.' He sent the clipping. It was a picture of someone else...
...time of his death Fitzgerald had completed an outline and 37,000 words of Draft No. 1, which he expected to finish within a month. Friends were sure The Love of the Last Tycoon would be published in some form, perhaps under some other title...
...with him. They wondered what he had been racing death to write. Last week they penetrated several wrappings of reticence to find out. Fitzgerald was writing a novel about Hollywood. Its hero was a movie producer. As "a gag title," Fitzgerald called his novel The Love of the Last Tycoon-A Western, expected it to run a little longer than The Great Gatsby (218 pages). He had begun writing it some five months before his death. Though secretive about his progress, he mentioned the novel in letters to Scribner's Editor Maxwell Perkins and to Edmund Wilson, Fitzgerald...