Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giants of the oil business squared off last week for a fight to dominate Canada's natural gas industry. In one corner was Clint Murchison, the flamboyant Texas oil tycoon (TIME, May 24, 1954) who bosses an empire of companies with assets of about $400 million. Against him was Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, 53, multimillionaire Canadian who began as a $4-a-day driller and rose to be a leading operator in Western Canada's spectacular oil boom. The big stake in the contest between them: a franchise to build a $350 million pipeline to carry Western...
...less successful moments of the movie come when the characters attempt to generalize too quickly. Their generalizations about security--those that don't come out of the action itself--and particularly the tycoon's remarks about success are mostly vacuous...
Fortunately the characters spend little time making speeches. Gregory Peck as the man in the gray flannel suit, Jennifer Jones as his wife, and Fredric March as the tycoon all do a great deal for their roles. Peck's is the toughest part. He gives a more than adequate performance as a man who acts decisively and honestly out of a strong self-respect--which is what his boss most lacks--without being especially superficial. Jennifer Jones and Fredric March skillfully manage dramatic scenes which in other hands might invite disaster. With scarcely an exception, the minor characters--like...
...assiduously wooing labor, dines union leaders 40 and 50 at a time. "When the workers listen to me, they say: 'Poujade is not so bad; he is not against us at all. He is against our enemies, the big trusts.' " The big trusts themselves are interested. Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac, biggest of French businessmen, owner of race horses and the fashion house of Dior, sent an emissary to sound out this new political phenomenon. "He tried to pull the worms out of my nose," was Poujade's characteristically inelegant reaction...
...stone's throw from its "collegiate Gothic" Green Hall, Wellesley College will put up two ultramodern buildings containing a 350-seat combined theater, lecture and recital hall and a gallery for art exhibitions. The gift of Spokane Lumber Tycoon George Frederick Jewett and his wife (Wellesley '23 and a trustee of the college) and their son and daughter, the buildings will form the Jewett Art, Music and Theater Center. Said President Margaret Clapp of the gift: "Aware of the challenge which automation will present to the good use of leisure time, and aware that women educated through...