Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...20th century male, who trembles dizzily at the brink of foppishness when he folds a handkerchief into the breast pocket of his sack suit. The rich man of today dresses more plainly, if anything, than his short-form employee, and there are social observers who theorize that the tycoon tries to be inconspicuous because he feels guilty about his wealth...
...beginning to pay off. Americans were all over the place. After getting over their first horror at poverty and squalor, many enthused over the opportunities, and over a spirit of cooperation in the government that they had not anticipated. In Uttar Pradesh, Kaiser Aluminum and India's Tycoon G. D. Birla were about to break ground for a new $42 million plant that will more than double India's present 18,000-ton aluminum capacity. South of New Delhi, Goodyear was putting in a $12 million tire factory; Firestone and an Indian partner plan another at Bareilly...
...free press-for the government happened to be celebrating the occasion by clapping 72-year-old Ahmed Emin Yalman, dean of Turkish newsmen (TIME, Jan. 18), into jail for violating the oppressive national press laws. His crime: reprinting in his daily Vatan (Nation) articles by U.S. Newspaper Tycoon Eugene C. Pulliam (the Indianapolis Star, nine other papers) that "belittled" Premier Adnan Menderes. For that, Yalman began a 15½-month sentence in Uskudar prison on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus...
Died. Arnold M. Johnson, 53, Chicago-born tycoon who worked his way up from a $75-a-month broker's apprenticeship to the vice-presidency of Chicago's City National Bank & Trust Co., later (1954) bought (for $3,500,000) the Philadelphia Athletics and moved the team to Kansas City; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach...
Among Beckmann's sponsors in St. Louis was Department Store Tycoon Morton D. May, an energetic collector of modern art. Last week in pictures from May's collection were on exhibit in the spanking-new library of St. Louis University, and the hit of the show proved to be 48 Beckmanns, the biggest and best collection of Beckmann's oils anywhere...