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DIED. Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 82, maverick financier, mining tycoon, art collector and founder of the Hirshhorn Museum; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The Latvian-born Hirshhorn rose from penury to wealth through shrewd dealings in stocks, gold, uranium and oil, meanwhile amassing a high-quality hoard of 2,000 sculptures and 4,000 paintings valued at $50 million. He was persuaded by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 to donate his collection to establish the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., which the U.S. built eight years later at a cost of $15 million...
...rich-as-Rockefeller tycoon and his ice-blond wife are found murdered, their throats torn open but no trace of metal from a weapon in the wounds. Who could have savaged them? Wolves. Or, rather, American Indians who have "shifted shape" and become supernatural "wolfen." They hunt in tribes in decaying slums, preying on "the diseased and those who won't be missed." They never come downtown - until the tycoon's urban renewal plan threatens their turf...
...Indeed, Young has hired Felix Rohatyn, the fiscal expert who helped New York escape from bankruptcy, to draft a blueprint to stave off financial disaster. The mayor is also busy trying to attract fresh industries to the city, especially firms specializing in electronics and plastics. Without Young, said Auto Tycoon Henry Ford II, "this city would be dead." His Honor is working hard to keep the patient alive, if just barely...
...businessmen who are central characters in shows are frequently negative, mostly clownish. Archie Bunker, who now owns a bar in Archie Bunker's Place, philosophizes that the best way to cut the crime rate in half is for every person to shoot one criminal; Dry Cleaning Mini-Tycoon George Jefferson of The Jeffersons emerges as an intellectual cipher, trapped in matriarchy. Even when businessmen are written into a plot on a one-shot basis, they are, in most cases, up to no good; only 6%-three of 49-were presented in a favorable light...
...antebellum adventures fade, the "contemporaries," as the trade labels them, are becoming the ardor of the day. Says Dell Vice President Ross Claiborne: "It's a license to print money." The license requires a plucky heroine up against heartrending odds (job problems; the other woman). Object: the tycoon or professional of her choice (see box). Unlike TV soaps or racier novels, the romances always view the boudoir in soft focus, and all true love affairs lead to the altar...