Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Victoria Woodhull, a handsome young advocate of free love and magnetic healing, added considerable spice to the suffrage cause. With her beauteous sister Tennessee, she arrived in New York from Pittsburgh (on the orders, she said, of the ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights...
...under Italy's best voice cultivators, persuaded to diet off 70 Ibs. down to a svelte 135. Meneghini's biggest mistake, as it turned out. was to marry Maria; they are now legally separated after ten years of marriage, and she spends many unoperatic moments with Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis. For a while it seemed that Meneghini, for reasons known only to himself, was heartbroken over Maria's departure, but last week there was a new trill in his ears. It emanated from promising young Silvana Tumicelli, 23, daughter of a furniture maker. Meneghini hopes to launch...
...conceded the head of one firm, "winds of change are blowing." Last week John Morgan & Co. dispatched swatches of material, in blues and greys, from which Senator John F. Kennedy will pick his fall suits. Another firm was making 30 suits for a Texas tycoon. Thirty Savile Row firms now have agents in the U.S., and some do 90% of their summer business with American tourists. Under pressure from such lucrative customers, most will now cut suits along slimmer American lines, and some have even consented to make drainpipe trousers devoid of "turnups" (cuffs...
Last week, though still too leary to take up a police offer of bodyguards, the millionaires joined in a campaign to make kidnaping on the island punishable by death (present maximum sentence: ten years in prison). Complained one tycoon: "Singapore business has been greatly affected. We do not have the peace of mind to concentrate on our affairs...
Died. Helen Trent, 28, queen of the soap operas, oldest sudser on the air (by three weeks over Ma Perkins), veteran of no husbands but of romances with every sort of fellow from handsome billionaires and hypnotists to psychotics and smooth-talking thugs, cause of a movie tycoon's suicide, a rancher's self-exile to a banana republic, once heard by 4,000,000 listeners on 203 CBS affiliate stations; of hardening of the kilocycles (despite respectable ratings); in Manhattan...