Word: beaumont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beaumont, Texas TIME'S policy in selecting front covers from people who make news must have changed to people who make noise...
...BEAUMONT DEMAREST Bergenfield...
...Tickle of the Flesh. The ambitious, foredoomed politico this time is restless, willful Jeremiah Beaumont who grew up in backwoods Kentucky, realizing that "I could not take the world as other men for the brightness of the moment and the tickle of the flesh." Apprenticed to Colonel Cassius Fort, a rousing linsey-woolsey lawyer who was leading the poor farmers' fight for "relief" from land debts, Jeremiah fell in love with Rachel Jordan, who had been seduced by Cassius Fort and delivered of a stillborn baby. At first she refused him. Then, in a series of extravagantly emotional scenes...
...Anderson, who now plays in a Western band in Beaumont, Texas, the result added up to a song; he gave it a hillbilly beat and tried it on his steel guitar. After the war, he tried to sell the song, but everyone around Beaumont thought the whole idea was just plain silly. Last year he made a recording-he didn't know how to write the notes down-and sent it to a friend with the Johnnie Lee Wills band. Says Tulsa's Johnnie Lee, the idol of the Southwest's square-toe boot and blue-jean...
...began to erupt. With a cannonlike report, mud, water and gas roared up, shooting pipe and rocks high in the air. Then came a greasy and terrifying geyser of oil - a 75,000-barrel-a-day flow, more than many a whole field produces. Within weeks, the town of Beaumont was a madhouse of tents, saloons, lean-tos and one-room shacks; land on the dome was selling for as much as $1,000,000 an acre, and derricks were rising, leg to leg, in a confused and feverish race for riches...