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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Even amid the zany opulence of the Hollywood set, Hal Braxton Hayes set a standard for show-offs to aspire to. A self-made millionaire, he liked to throw frequent parties for 200 to 300 guests in his $600,000, six-level surrealistic home carved out of a mountainside in Beverly Hills. Trim and handsomely greying at 48, Bachelor Hayes figured in gossip items with Joan Blondell and Barbara Hutton. and made the headlines for lasting two long months as the fiance-of-the-moment of Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. Hal Hayes also had another, essential side-the money-making...
...money rolled in, it rolled out. Hayes found in 1950 that he was paying $70,000 a year for entertainment, so he set up his own nightclub in a $400-a-month Sunset Strip apartment with a dance floor, a waterfall, and rugs running up the walls. When he became engaged to Zsa Zsa Gabor (whom he made a vice president of his company), he gave her a 45-carat blue-white diamond so heavy that Zsa Zsa, who also knows a thing or two about publicity, could only gesticulate with her right, or free, hand. When the engagement broke...
Empire Building. Last February Riklis had a chance to sell Butler Brothers to City Products Corp. for $50 million-of which $34 million was in cash. With the cash he set up B.T.L. as a corporate shell, and went shopping. For $7,000,000 in cash he bought 38% working control of United Stores-which in turn controls the McCrory-McLellan chain of stores-from the H. L. Green chain, which was having its troubles. (Green had merged with Maurice Olen's chain of stores in the fall of 1958, but Olen has been charged with overstating his assets...
...pected to keep the job only temporarily until a permanent boss is named. Berner has been a director since 1949. -He attended Harvard ('31) and Columbia Law School ('35), then joined a Manhattan law firm, served in the Navy during World War II, set up his own practice in 1945. His specialty: representing minority stock-.holders in disputes with the management...
...SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE (507 pp.]-William Sfyron-Random House...