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...Indian Territory, Kerr likes to recall that he set a big goal early in life: he wanted a family, a million dollars and the governorship -in that order. He succeeded-in that order. He was an attorney in 1926 when he hooked up with a drilling firm, soon afterward was devoting himself to some high-style and successful oil exploration. His move into politics was equally successful, and so was his one term (in 1942) as Governor of Oklahoma...
...Pops Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 67, unwound a 96-piece orchestra in his own three-minute baroque version of The Twist. The white-maned maestro played the score "tempo a la Chubby Checker" after listening to one of the tubby twister's records and checking it with a metronome. Afterward, at a local nightclub to gyre and gimbal a bit himself, Fiedler adjudged the dance craze: "It's authentic primitive Americana, not from Siberia or Laos, I don't think it's physically unattractive either...
...interfere with his career. He does not smoke, sips a single sherry or Campari before dinner, and occasionally twirls a brandy glass afterward. A bachelor, he lives modestly in a two-room apartment a few paces from Berkeley Square. One of his few indulgences is a sizable stereophonic record collection; though he is fond of art ("I'm afraid the abstracts don't appeal to me"), his most valuable pictures are a pair of landscapes in oil, signed W.S.C., that were a gift from the Old Gentleman who painted them. He occasionally takes a girl out to dinner...
Stans became president of Western Bancorporation in March 1961 ; soon afterward, Times-Mirror Publisher Otis Chandler suggested the possibility of a weekly column. "It was tempting," says Stans. It was even more attractive after his first five sample columns drew orders from 21 papers; 25 more have joined in the six months since then. But Stans turns his $12,000-a-year newspaper take over to Western Bancorporation because "they pay me for my thinking time...
...Soon afterward, during one of their rare meetings, the dialogue went like this : Don Juan (bluntly) : I hear you've been sick, lost your senses or something...