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Lamp Posts, Booze, Chisels. Like Prophet Mohammed's original Koran, Tycoon Ford's Moving Forward is best read in stimulating snatches. Its inconsistencies, some irreconcilable, are not the point. Snatches...
...tycoon worth his salt is striving to advance mankind. Thus in Russia (writes Mr. Ford) "We are there erecting for the account of the Soviet Government an automobile plant which they will own and manage. We are training men for them in our factories; we are turning over to them all our blueprints and plans and are undertaking to keep them informed of our technical progress. All this we are doing at cost. If we were simply selling our product we could do so at considerably less trouble than this, but we think that Russia needs modern industry and more...
Great Russia needs modern industry?this simple but colossal fact, Mr. Ford thinks, provides a sufficient, a tycoon-worthy motive for his helping Russia...
...when only 29 Lawyer Smith, now "F. E." to every potent barrister in England, pocketed close to $200,000 as his outrageous fee for counseling British tobacco interests how to deal with America's then rampant tobacco tycoon, James B. Duke. To celebrate he took a bride from Oxford. She, Margaret Eleanor Furneaux, dutiful daughter of a canny old Latin Professor, had obeyed her father when he told her to put off marrying Freddy some years earlier, "because one meets so many rising young men who never seem to rise...
...extra. She soon rose to stardom but the screen could not reveal her flaming orange hair (her one unique characteristic) and she had small success. Wiseacres fell into the way of calling her Hopeless Hampton but that was before she married Jules E. Brulatour, pince-nezed grey-haired film tycoon (Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.), before she had operatic ambitions. Two years ago her debut with the Philadelphia Grand Opera (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928) was said to have cost Husband Brulatour $100,000. She had private rehearsals (at approxi- mately $5,000 apiece) with full-piece orchestra, established singers...