Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Desi Arnaz, 46, TV ex-tycoon (Desilu Productions Inc.) and ex-husband (Lucille Ball); and Edith Mack Hirsch, 45, wife until earlier last week of Millionaire Sportsman Clement Hirsch, and like Lucy a redhead; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...current retrospective show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum is the meeting ground for the ideas of three dead giants: Solomon Guggenheim, the copper-tycoon tastemaker; Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect; and Vasily Kandinsky, the father of abstract expressionism. For patrons making the spiral descent into the museum's terrazzo maelstrom to view the largest collection of Kandinsky oils and watercolors ever assembled, it is almost as if this were the event the three men had had in mind all along...
...effect is quite different. As long as there is a novelist with the old know-how, all is not lost. The reader of this Tom-Swift-in-Hell story has the choice of a dozen characters with whom it should be a privilege to identify. There is this tycoon, an old Walter Huston type, rich enough to dig a two or three hundred million dollar fur-lined funk hole under his Connecticut Shangrila. There is his nice ginny wife. And (what larks in the ark in this subterranean Ararat) his mistress. A Jewish nuclear physicist clever enough to work...
...advertise themselves-truly or falsely -as discounters. The Arangos' impact is the more remarkable because the brothers, all college-educated in the U.S., were treated as outcasts by their own class when they opened their first store with a loan from their wealthy father, a textile tycoon and onetime store-chain owner himself. Mexico City's department stores banded together to drive out the upstart that dared to offer brassieres at 13% under list, kitchenware at 15% and refrigerators at 20% under. But Mexican shoppers nearly overran the store, sometimes scooping up goods so fast that the brothers...
Here also is the most luxurious resort in the Caribbean, Frenchman's Cove-a palm-pillared beach surrounded by soaring jungle cliffs, with a crystalline, spring-fed river sneaking into the surf along one side. One look, and Canadian Food Tycoon Garfield Weston bought the beach plus 40 acres, only to find out later that the fine print in the bill of sale had contained a stipulation that he build a hotel on the property. His son, Grainger, took over, and the result was 18 houses sited throughout the property to provide maximum privacy and view. Built...