Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never at a loss for a grandiose idea, Manhattan Real Estate Tycoon William Zeclcendorf, boss of the widespread Webb & Knapp empire, acquired a controlling interest in Yonkers Raceway for International Recreation Corp., a Webb & Knapp affiliate. Estimated cost: $17 million. Zeckendorf's avowed intention is to build a geodesic dome over the track to make it a year-round sports arena. More likely, he will merge the profitable Yonkers with International in order to write off the losses on International's Freedomland amusement park, which has yet to show a profit. Always in need of ready cash, Zeckendorf...
...Textile Tycoon Bernard Goldfine, 70, whose gift-giving ways forced the resignation of former New Hampshire Governor Sherman Adams as top assistant to Dwight Eisenhower in 1958, managed to land three more Government employees in hot water. Scarcely had the Boston industrialist been ensconced in Danbury, Conn., federal prison to begin a year-and-a-day stretch for tax evasion, when three of its staff-a janitor, a machinist and a cook-were suspended for helping him keep up illicit correspondence with friends on the outside. As for the gregarious Goldfine, he landed in "segregation," pending investigation of the alleged...
...comedy is buoyantly performed, a happy tour de farce. Donald Moffat, in the role of John Tarleton, the self-taught underwear tycoon, is the image of Shaw's young old man, the drawing-room atheist who quotes his chosen gospels: "Read Ibsen. Read Dickens. Read Whatshisname." As his daughter Hypatia, Frances Sternhagen seems to have been born with a riding crop in hand and the conviction that the pursuit of a mate is the most exciting form of fox hunt. James Greene is cringingly comic as a socialist underdog who yearns to bite the hand that feeds...
...sort of night that society columnists dream of. On the seafront terrace of a colonnaded mansion at Cap Ferrat, Mary Lasker widow of U.S. Advertising Tycoon Albert D. Lasker, was dining quietly with two good friends: Gérald van der Kemp, curator of the Versailles Palace, and Anna Rosenberg. President Truman's Assistant Defense Secretary. At nearby Eze-sur-Mer, U.S.-born Prince Youka Troubetzkoy and his beautiful princess. Sparkplug Heiress Marcia Stranahan, had left their sumptuous Villa Mayou to attend a formal dinner dance given by Boston Financier Serge Semenenko aboard Sir Bernard Docker's yacht...
...earliest panacea peddlers to cross the Rio Grande was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the ''goat-gland" tycoon who exploited his failing listeners' yearnings for potency to the tune of some $1,000,000 a year before he died bankrupt...