Word: entrepreneurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week another big customer came along. He turned out to be the last. For more than $15 million, Norton Simon, 57, Southern California entrepreneur and art collector (TIME, April 24), bought the gallery's elegant Manhattan mansion and everything in it. The wares include 146 paintings dating from the early Renaissance through the 18th century. There are tapestries ranging from the French Gothic to Francois Boucher's rose damask Gobelins commissioned by Louis XVI, an abundance of porcelains, sculpture, antique furniture, and a rare 4,000-book art library. None of the treasures will go under...
...Angeles Entrepreneur Norton Simon, a self-made millionaire, has few rivals among U.S. businessmen in the variety of his financial interests. They spread from his $400 million-a-year Hunt Foods & Industries through steel, salad oil, matches, paint and publishing. Yet Simon seldom stops in his search for new horizons, and last week he moved deftly in two widely different directions...
...London holding company headed by British Hardware Tycoon Charles Hayward, another 25% to a New York group led by Investment Banker Charles Allen. To build the hotel and supply the other resort and residential amenities, the Port Authority organized the Grand Bahama Development Co., Ltd. with Canadian Entrepreneur Louis Chesler. The Port Authority put up $2,000,000 and 100,000 acres, Chesler $23 million. Today the $100 million pleasure isle is slowly taking shape...
...curled through a straw-and-cloth effigy hanging in the main square of normally sedate Saint John, New Brunswick. Hundreds of onlookers gathered to watch the fire and to argue about the object of their anger: Kenneth Colin Irving, the richest man, the biggest landholder and the most contentious entrepreneur in Canada's Maritime Provinces...
...puts it) of his two administrations, he recalls, "I introduced the entrepreneurial aspect of the love for the knowledge of economy into our government." After a pause he confides, "The problem for Latin American presidents is that they don't have access to reliable advisers and researchers. The entrepreneur has the best chance for success. Betancourt has a chance. He's got a strong party and good technical assistants. But Bosch--Bosch was lucky to last as long as he did. He's a great man, but a writer and an intellectual. Can you imagine Hemingway governing...