Word: tycooning
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Tubmen Sirs: Shrugged cynically, Diogenes, tub-dwelling, lantern-toting tycoon. The cause: TIME'S in sinuation that a strictly residential tub ever figured in a decidedly out of character bathing episode. Glared Archimedes. "Eureka, but they have forgotten," sighed the scientific Syracusan with a gravity more than specific. H. E. PICKETT Oilman Country School, Roland Park, Baltimore...
...books. In Manhattan last week it was discovered that a pile of old books hastily sold (or, perhaps, cunningly bought) contained a first-edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders of the Rue Morgue-the third such copy known to exist. An anonymous collector, presumably Tycoon Owen D. Young, immediately snatched the find...
Earlier in the week Viscount Rothermere, England's most potent newspaper tycoon, once Conservative, now Liberal, blatantly and confidently predicted in his Daily Mail the fall of the Conservative Government...
Bishop Cannon is the first to receive the Christian Herald's award, which hereafter will be annual. Since the Christian Herald is the largest Protestant weekly in the U. S. its award is a matter of no small moment. In time, Editor High and Chain-Store Tycoon James Cash Penney, who is president of the Christian Herald Association, Inc., hope to have their award rated as a sort of Nobel prize for religion. Unlike the Nobel prizes, however, Christian Herald awards will go to none but U. S. citizens...
Died. Harry Coulby, 64, of Cleveland, ("Tsar of the Great Lakes"), ship and steel tycoon (Interlakes Steamship Co., Pittsburgh Steamship Co., Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.); suddenly; in London...