Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...female complaints. With good reason. Professionally, European women firmly hold down the bottom rung of the ladder. Though every third woman works in Germany, only 3% of that nation's top jobs are held by women. In the exalted world of big business, the nearest thing to a tycoon is Beate Uhse and her sex shops. In England, for every 50 men earning ?5,000, there is only one woman. Out of a total of 2,448 practicing barristers, there are only 133 women. In Sweden, 53 women legislators out of 384 is considered impressive. Meanwhile, women there constitute...
...private dealers are as well housed as Salz. Newcomer Ben Heller, 44, a textile tycoon and a well-known collector in his own right, makes do with a nine-room co-op apartment on Manhattan's Central Park West. Heller is also a friend of artists. He was an early patron of Pollock, Newman, and Kline, has sold many of the paintings thus acquired to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art-keeping a few favorites for himself. Today he buys mostly primitive, classical and Oriental objects. "I buy as a collector, basically because it is beautiful...
...psychiatrist might say his sense of humor evolved out of necessity. Adopted at the age of two by Newspaper Tycoon Ira C. Copley, whose publishing empire included 16 newspapers in Illinois and California, Bill grew up feeling lonely and out of place. "My family believed that all artists are either Communists or homosexuals," he recalls. "Four years at Andover, four years at Yale, four years in the Army...
...story is a Nineteen-Twentyish drawing-room comedy that concentrates on a ménage-à-trois: tycoon, wife and mistress. The other woman is the wife of the tycoon's business associate who has already bedded the tycoon's wife...
Last week Let It Be came out again on an Apple LP, along with eleven other Beatles renditions. Where did those brass choirs come from? And those secular maracas? They came courtesy of Phil Spector, yesteryear's teen tycoon of rock, whose paeans to post-pubescent passion (Be My Baby, You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin') earned him an estimated $5,000,000 before he retired in 1966 at age 25. Last February Spector was brought in by Beatles Manager Allen Klein to give the album a little commercial passion. And did he ever...