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Anent Royal Dutch's Sir Henri Deterding, May 9: when the Winkler County, Texas oil gushers, in the midst of the desert of Texas, hit the headlines across the world in the '20s with "Oil, 10? a barrel, water $1," I drove across the trackless sand with tires deflated toward two men near a Dodge coupé with a broken axle and mired in gypsum sand up to the running boards. One was an unshaven, booted, leather-jacketed oilfield-lease hound named Allen; the other, Sir Henri Deterding, immaculately dressed in English tweeds, with a pipe...
Into Texas' unpredictable political picture has swept a new name, a new face, and a new third party-all rolled into the form of a squat, barrel-chested, brass-voiced character named John Milton Addison. A man of infinite talents, Addison, 36, is the announced candidate for Governor under the party banner he created for that purpose: the "Clean 'Em Out Right Party." The label was designed to fit the Democratic "ins," but may apply also aptly to Addison himself. A federal grand jury in Fort Worth last week returned a 24-count indictment against Addison...
...institution, Crosby has to survive a fraternity initiation requiring him to crash a cotillion ball as a belle. All trigged up in a blonde wig, false eyelashes, lipstick, rouge and falsies, Crosby volunteered: "No wonder the ladies of the day got the vapors and fainted. I feel like a barrel with the staves too tight...
Polly arrives-a touching sight. Dressed in pitiful scraps "from the missionary barrel," she looks like a poor little match girl down to her last match. But underneath her rags she wears an impenetrable armor of cheerfulness that shines like pure rock candy. When Aunt Polly indifferently sends a maidservant (Olson) to meet her at the train. Pollyanna gurgles to the girl: "I'm glad . . . because now I've got her still coming, and I've got you besides!" When Aunt Polly coldly stows her away in a bare little bedroom in the attic, she runs...
...have guessed that he had appeared only 15 times before on any opera stage. He displayed a richly colored voice of such volume and stamina that he sounded as fresh at the final curtain as he did in the opening scenes. A stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 Ibs.), barrel-chested man, he gave the role a sense of dramatic dignity that made the tortured delusions of the final scenes all the more moving. Critics and audience agreed that he promised to be one of the great Otellos of his time...