Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Onetime Movie Tycoon Joe Kennedy dined in Hollywood with Actor Tony Curtis and conferred with Producer Jerry Wald on the filming possibilities of a book that interested him. Result: Wald has been meeting with Bobby Kennedy and other veterans of the Senate labor racketeering committee staff to work out the details of the" movie version of Bobby's own story of the Teamster investigations, The Enemy Within...
...victim begins by being simply overneat and fussy about cleanliness. Then he gets into conflict with all the people around him who do not comply with his compulsive standards. His compulsion may drive him to excessive washing of his body, of clothes, and even doorknobs. (One legendary American tycoon would not shake hands or touch a doorknob unless he had on white cotton gloves.) He gets to the point where he actually washes the skin off his hands and has to go into a hospital...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.) Art Carney stars in "O'Halloran's Luck," a musical adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's story about an Irish immigrant who becomes a U.S. railroad tycoon with the assistance of a displaced leprechaun. Color...
...described in her latest book, Shadows on the Grass (TIME, Jan. 6), a country where "the white pioneers lived in guileless harmony with the children of the land." Following a three-month stretch for contempt of court and two months of treatment in three mental institutions, Textile Tycoon Bernard Goldfine, 70, was ruled mentally competent to stand trial on charges of evading $791,745 in federal income taxes. Noting that the industrialist had managed to conduct business operations from one of the institutions and had "bribed hospital attendants to send telegrams," a U.S. judge found the gift-bearing crony...
Atomic Holocaust? Gilbert went on to become a tycoon. He bought a 600-acre estate outside New Haven, called it Paradise, and stocked it with fish, game and trophies from hunting expeditions. He insisted on punching the time clock each day as he reported for work with his 2,000 employees (he also punched a bag daily), often showed up in old, patched clothes. He kept up his interest in sports as a pole vaulting coach at Yale for many years (he authored the Encyclopaedia Britannica's article on pole vaulting) and, ever the perfectionist, gave up golf after...