Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year subscription campaign in 1955 that raised about $380,000 for the new fund at Harvard. Over 1500 separate donations were solicited throughout the United States, with contributions ranging from $1 to $70,000. The largest donation came from the Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal, established by a famous oil tycoon, nicknamed "Mr. Five Per Cent...
Died. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, 66, daughter of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew Mellon, and long regarded as the nation's richest woman; in Manhattan. Over the years, Mrs. Bruce (she married Career Diplomat David Bruce in 1926; they were divorced in 1945) quietly donated enormous sums to the institutions she loved, including $20 million (in conjunction with her brother) to Washington's National Gallery of Art last year and $3,000,000 to Lincoln Center in 1958. But, as a friend put it, "she had more money than anyone could give away sensibly." Last year FORTUNE estimated her personal worth...
Died. William Goetz, 66, movie producer and studio executive; in Los Angeles. A son-in-law of Movie Tycoon Louis B. Mayer, Goetz helped found both 20th Century-Fox and Universal-International before striking out on his own in 1954. His hits included Sayonara, The Song of Bernadette, Winchester '73, and he was among the first with the-now common practice-idea of giving top stars a percentage of the profits from their pictures...
...offshoot of Ellman's original Cattleman, the Cattleman West, which opened last February, is already serving 1,250 people a day. Those figures are immensely satisfying to Proprietor Ellman, a onetime student of accounting from Brooklyn whose big ambition in school was to become, in his words, "a tycoon." By putting the sizzle ahead of the steak, he is well...
...Dallas' gruff, shrewd Real Estate Tycoon O. L. Nelms. For more than a decade, Nelms has placed advertisements in the personal columns of local papers saying, "Thank you, Dallas, for helping O L. Nelms make another million." Now he has an even bigger and better idea: he is creating a $5,000,000 fund to provide huge public cocktail parties with free food and drink for anyone who wants to attend. By spending only the income Nelms can give several super swingers a year from now till the end of time. "This would be a real nice...