Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Lenord Merrill, 83, cable tycoon (All American Cables & Radio, Inc., American Cable & Radio Corp.), who helped wire the two Americas together; in Manhattan...
Married. Sylvia Gould, 31, great-granddaughter of Jay ("Robber Baron") Gould who piled up one of the first great U.S. fortunes as a Civil War speculator and railroad tycoon, daughter of a onetime Italian governess in the Gould family; and Lieut. Commander (U.S.N.) Ernst Hoefer Jr., 29, of Sheboygan, Wis.; she for the third time, he for the first; after a false start two months ago when she broke the engagement on grounds that he refused to sign away dower rights to her estate; in Seager...
...Foremost in his makeup is vitality, drive, and aggressiveness," said Dr. Slight. "But he is expected to shut down these drives and be a man of diplomacy. The tycoon has not much place nowadays. The executive must be a compromiser. Therefore, a great deal of his innate drive cannot be expressed outwardly...
...replied: "Compared to Chicago, Yale is a boy's finishing school." Asked what he thought of Chicago, he said: "The faculty does not amount to much, but the president and the students are wonderful." When he prepared to testify before a committee of the Illinois legislature (after Drugstore Tycoon Charles Walgreen had charged that his niece was being taught Communism at the university), Trustee Laird Bell offered to pay Hutchins $25 for every wisecrack he didn't make...
Born to wealth (his father was a railroad tycoon), Firbank spent most of his short life roaming around the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, halting, as the whim seized him, in a tent in the desert, a palace in Portugal or an old house in Constantinople. He carried around with him a trunkful of objets d'art, including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned...