Word: beaumont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pound, hell-raising son of a Beaumont (Tex.) oilworker, McCarthy worked in the oilfields, began wildcatting on his own in 1933. He was in & out of the money before he brought in the League City field in 1939 and put his fortune, now estimated at around $50 million, on a reasonably permanent basis. He branched out into the natural-gas business, began picking up choice real estate, including Houston's profitable, 22-story Shell building...
...members. In the battle to elect next year's commander, the old-guard "king makers" squelched a rebellion by the younger veterans, steamrolled serenely on to victory with stocky, bespectacled S. Perry Brown, 56, veteran of both wars and general manager of a Beaumont, Tex. building-materials company. It wasn't even close...
...bill for 395 years. Says his caterer, who was once maitre d'hotel at London's Grosvenor House: "The food he consumes in a day costs less than two bob [40?]." His presents are far from lavish. Last month his British adviser, Sir Walter Monckton, sent Richard Beaumont, a young secretary, to Hyderabad for some papers. As a gesture of gratitude the Nizam handed Beaumont a present-a $2.50 pen & pencil...
...Port of Beaumont had sailed from the U.S. 15 months ago, with 19 men and two women, under the command of ex-Navy Commander Finn Ronne (rhymes with bonnie). The expedition had had probably the most ambitious scientific agenda of any that ever ventured into Antarctica: data for the U.S. Government, the American Antarctic Association, the American Geographical Society, colleges and foundations...
Beauty & the Beast (Paulvé; Lopert), the innocent old fairy tale written in 1757 by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont, seems to many surrealists to state the problem of good & evil in its "real" terms, i.e., as a sexual, male-female equation, with symbols of profane and sacred love. Poet-Playwright-Producer Jean Cocteau, a part-time surrealist, has now transformed the tale into a film that is a wondrous spectacle for children of any language, and quite a treat for their parents...