Word: tycooning
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Once in a while a guest refuses to play the game. Sportsman and TV Tycoon Ted Turner stalked off the set after Cottle prodded him about his father's suicide and his sister's illness. Turner reportedly described Up Close as "the National Enquirer of talk shows," and refused to give permission to air his segment. But most Cottle guests (who receive talk-show scale of $200 to $400) know the ground rules: show and tell...
DIED. Achille Lauro, 95, self-made shipping tycoon and two-term mayor of Naples whose flamboyant generosity brought color and chaos to his adoring city; of a heart attack; in Naples. Having thrice lost and rebuilt a shipping empire, Lauro became mayor in 1952 and ruled with the profligate munificence of a Godfather, distributing banknotes and spaghetti to voters, erecting magnificent fountains, even abolishing traffic lights...
...John De Lorean had ten days and nights in jail to contemplate the wreckage of his life. Then at the end of last week, all in a few hours' time, he was the center of frantic activity. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles formally charged the automobile tycoon (and two alleged accomplices) with conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine. De Lorean's bail was doubled, to $10 million. But then, for the prisoner, some good news at last: Assistant U.S. Attorney James Walsh agreed to accept as bail $250,000 cash and title to De Lorean...
...list is not restricted to dormitories: many a visitor to the Busch-Reisinger Museum has found a certain spiritual succor in the memory of its chief donor, the St. Louis brewer tycoon Adolphus Busch...
DIED. Virginia Fox Zanuck, 83, once Buster Keaton's leading lady, Mack Sennett's tiniest bathing beauty, and in 1924 Movie Tycoon Darryl F. Zanuck's storybook bride (although they did not live happily ever after); of a lung infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. The petite (4 ft. 9 in.) Virginia Fox gave up her acting career when she met Zanuck, then a struggling scriptwriter, on a blind date. A renowned Hollywood hostess, she zealously sang his praises for years, but the marriage was later marred by Darryl's persistent extramarital affairs and by much publicized...