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Lean, stubborn Charles A. (for Austin) Steen was so full of troubles that it was only natural to think of him as Bad-Luck Charlie. A onetime oil geologist for Socony-Vacuum, he spent two years in the South American jungle where no white men had ever been before, then went to work for a Texas oil company. When he was fired for telling off his boss, he found that no other oil company would have him. He scraped along in the contracting business for a while, but never forgot a romantic dream of his days at the Texas College...
...directors voted him a gift of 100,000 shares of stock, then valued at $2.80 a share. A year later, however, roused by Sir John's tax-free present and a similar gift made by Austin Motor Car Co. Ltd. to Managing Director Leonard P. Lord, Britain's Labor government levied a retroactive surtax on such deals, deprived Sir John of 95% of his gift...
Catching a Lady Bird. It was at this stage of his life that the brash young Texan caught Lady Bird (christened Claudia Alta Taylor), the bright, charming daughter of a millionaire Texas rancher. Johnson organized his campaign and surrounded her in typical fashion. The day they met in Austin he asked for and got a date for breakfast the next morning; he courted her for three days until he had to go back to Washington, then kept up a steady fire of letters and telephone calls. They were married ten weeks after they met, and Johnson hustled her back...
Word to the Wise. One day during spring vacation, Dean Taeusch began boasting about his find to a friend in Pittsburgh. To his surprise, the friend had already heard about Robert Peters. Back in 1948, Peters had been employed as a publicity secretary in the office of Bishop Austin Pardue, but his behavior became so erratic that he had to be fired. That, however, was not all that was a bit irregular about the man. It might be wise, said the friend, for Dean Taeusch to look into the matter further...
...international reporting, Milwaukee Journal Financial Reporter Austin C. Wehrwein, 37, for a series of 26 articles on the politics, economics and industrial development of Canada...