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Gusher. Both Texas industry and Wildcatter Glenn McCarthy were born at Spindletop-a gently sloping salt dome near Beaumont, from which gushed the first big flood of dark, heavy Texas oil. Like many another boom field which was to follow, the Spindletop discovery was the result of one man's faith, energy and stubbornness...
...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...