Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ridge of the Ramapos on the west side of the Hudson, 48 miles from Manhattan. Known as "The Rock" to the hundreds of presidents, vice presidents and general managers who have studied there since the program began eleven years ago, Arden House is the former barony of Railroad Tycoon E. H. Harriman. In 1950 Eldest Son W. Averell Harriman gave the $5.5 million neo-Norman castle and its 100 acres of parkland to Columbia. Alumnus Averell and his brother Roland picked up the tab for converting the old homestead into a conference center (item: a new roof...
Divorced. George Capron, 79, Los Angeles real estate tycoon (860 acres on Laguna Beach); by Ednah Race Capron, 74, who until now ran his household on a budget of $300 a month; on grounds of cruelty (he denied her a nurse last year when she broke her leg); after 55 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Settlement: half his fortune, or $16 million, highest award in California history...
Occasional Winks. Chase took the boycott in stride-and so have most of the firms that have been banned from the 40 million-customer Arab market. The 40 firms owned by British Tycoon Charles Clore were barred last year when Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson lent Jerusalem $2,000,000 to build a new town hall, and the U.S.'s Witco Chemical was blacklisted after it bought a chemical firm that had an executive who owned a piece of an Israeli oil company. The Arabs offer reinstatement to firms that stop their dealings with Israel, but the Israelis have...
...cannot put down. Like the book, it scores its cheap success as a swift, irresistibly vulgar compilation of all the racy stories anyone has ever heard about wicked old Hollywood of the '20s and '30s. The titillation is masked as the biography of a fresh young tycoon whose interests -airlines, moviemaking, starlets-bear certain obvious though wildly embellished parallels to the career of Howard Hughes...
Married. Sir Frank Packer, 57, Australian newspaper tycoon, owner of Gretel, unsuccessful 1962 challenger for the America's Cup; and Florence Porges, 49, Australian socialite; both for the second time; in London...