Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than two years, New Jersey Real Estate Tycoon Philip J. Levin, 58, tried to topple the management of one of the biggest U.S. movie companies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. He spent $11,480,000 for MGM stock, eventually bought or controlled 720,000 shares, or 14.3% of the total. He put out at least $800,000 to finance two bitter but unsuccessful proxy fights...
...director, Roger Corman, picked sensational topics--Hell's Angels and acid. Then he shot some film, dressed it up with a big-beat score, and prayed nobody would discover what he is: an idiot. Of course, with a couple more pictures like these, he will also be a Hollywood tycoon...
...rich but unscrupulous wheelchair-bound tycoon buy the U.S. presidency for his personable Congressman son? Well, this breathless book says that he can - if he has the assistance of a ruthless second son, and is prepared to pay a couple of conniving political geniuses $1,000,000 a year to give his charming offspring a doozied-up image as a vigorous battler for human rights...
Ever since Pittsburgh Steel Tycoon Henry Clay Frick left his strong-willed daughter a fortune that has grown to at least $38 million in five decades, Helen Clay Frick has spent her life idealizing his "Christian" memory and devoting his cash to such cultural works as Manhattan's Frick art museum. Thus in 1964, Miss Frick was incensed when she unwrapped a Christmas present: Historian Sylvester K. Stevens' Pennsylvania: Birthplace of a Nation (Random House), which limned her "stern, brusque, autocratic" father as the hard-knuckled "Coke King" who forced Pennsylvania coal miners to toil...
Last week those fears were put to rest by Cumberland County Judge Clinton R. Weidner, who ruled not only that Stevens' book is accurate and protected as free speech-but also that Stevens was actually too polite to Tycoon Frick. If his daughter were upheld, said Judge Weidner, "our bookshelves would be either empty or contain books written only by relatives of the subject." He added: "Miss Frick might as well try to enjoin publication and distribution of the Holy Bible because, being a descendant of Eve, she does not believe that Eve gave Adam the forbidden fruit...