Word: wien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silvery 102-story shaft of the Empire State Building looms through the picture windows in the Manhattan offices of Real Estate Partners Lawrence A. Wien and Harry B. Helmsley. They gaze on it with a unique warmth: along with 3,000 other investors in a syndicate they formed four years ago, they have a 114-year lease on it. The tower is a fitting emblem of their domain, which last week made a major expansion. For an undisclosed sum, the partners bought the entire fiefdom of hotels and movie houses assembled over 47 years by J. (for Junius) Myer Schine...
Prosperity and its ties with the West have changed some of Alt Wien's customs. There are only half as many coffeehouses now (660) as there were in prewar Vienna. Many of the most famous along the Ringstrasse have been replaced by auto showrooms, from which a steady stream of new Volkswagens and Mercedes has helped boost passenger-car registrations 75% in the past five years. TV sets in use have tripled since 1960, and while bandy legged Willy Elmayer, the 80-year-old ex-cavalry officer who runs Vienna's most famous dancing school, still teaches...
...make himself look older, 2) confuse his creditors, and 3) camouflage himself from the first of his five wives-to say nothing of the several other girls he was leaving behind. Stolz was bitten by the composing bug while he was conductor of Vienna's Theater-an-der-Wien, wrote some of his first real hits while serving as an army clerk in World War I. Among them: Lang, lang ist's her (700 performances), Madel küss mich (750). Sperrsechserl (a phenomenal 2,600 performances beginning...
...their two young daughters, Bull's mother and uncle. Dead were a dozen or so artists, some of them promising, including Douglas Davis, 33, who had been living in Paris and had decided at the last minute to visit his mother in Atlanta. Dead were Art Patron Sidney Wien, his wife and their daughter; Del Paige, president of the Art Association, and his wife; Tom-Chris Allen, southeastern advertising manager of LIFE, and his wife; Mrs. David Black, one of the tour organizers and an energetic leader in Atlanta's art world. Married couples and individual parents...
Chow in the Sky. Wien, who has a hand in the operation of nearly all his syndicated properties, insists that he is not a speculator. "We buy for permanent investment," he declares, "and can only sell a property with 100% consent of the investing partners." Among his plans for the Empire State: to open a luxury restaurant beneath the highly profitable ($2,000,000 a year) observation deck, plant trees around the base of the building, brighten its cavernous lobbies, and complete the air conditioning of its 1,750,000 sq. ft. of rentable space, which currently has a highly...