Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remarked London's Financial Times last week, it would be easy to get the impression that the country "has gone merger-mad." In the last decade, the number of corporate mergers in Britain has increased from roughly 300 a year to more than 800. Britain's takeover tycoon, Charles Clore, having brought together the shoe industry in his British Shoe Corp., has added to it the Lewis's Investment Trust, a department-store chain, for which he paid almost $180 million. The metals-manufacturing firm, Tube Investments, has bid to take over Charles Churchill...
...become such a complete victim of the family compulsion to put words on paper that he had even written his autobiography. As Adams autobiographies go, Charles's proved less than scintillating. It remained for Professor Kirkland to provide a properly engrossing study of a remarkable tycoon...
...overcome the limits of his theatre, but he overshot his mark. His Andrew Undershaft, the devilish millionaire, should be a calm, self-assured, and enchanting British man of business. With Ronald Bishop as Undershaft, Criss creates a tasteless cross between an absent-minded lecher and a greasy, loudmouthed American tycoon. Undershaft should be civilized; Criss makes him vulgar. He should be easy, going; but in this version he thunders every other word as if the fires of hell had engulfed the theatres on Washington Street and were reaching eagerly for the Charles. He should play the reserved, dignified husband...
...blue-jowled, Rasputin-like Bronx Republican. G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, a magic name in New York's Jewish districts, came on as campaign chairman. Money flowed in from the Rockefeller family, New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer, and from purses farther west-notably from Tire Tycoon Leonard K. Firestone in California and Food Magnate H. J. Heinz II in Pittsburgh. In all, the Lindsay campaign cost close to $2,000,000 and, as usual, wound up in debt...
...discovers very TIME, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 little that is not evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist, Hero Wylie discovers that the old tycoon is guilty of multifarious fornications, industrial sharp practices, attempted treason, and coveting his own son's young wife. The girl ha.s a father complex, and the old man has a Mom problem - the results of incestuous love repressed in their childhood, naturally. Hero Wylie understands their problems, but when they...