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...derricks weathered under the south western sun; tramp steamers rusted in their harbor slips. But the visitor from New York heeded neither the heat nor the scenery. Samuel I. Newhouse, 67, had come to the Texas Gulf Coast port of Beaumont for only one reason ? to run down a rumor that the city's two news papers were for sale. Beyond that possibility, Beaumont held no charms for the little man from the big city. And when the rumor proved false, the visitor could not get out of town fast enough...
French aristocrats, such as Prince Michel de Bourbon de Panne and Comte Jean de Beaumont, father of one of the International Set's standout beauties, Vi-comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, set the pace for French elegance. One of the biggest wigs among the bourgeois is Paul-Louis Weiller, who has some 15 houses, which he very generously lends...
...Much of Beaumont's fortune has gone toward promoting his radical views about church reform. "We need a revolution," he says. "We need a revision of the Prayer Book. We need to purge the Gospels of out-of-date accretions and produce an act of worship in modern idiom. The church spends its funds wrongly too. Church money should be used to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and preach the Gospel...
More often than not, Beaumont's own preaching shocks his predominantly middle-class congregation. On a recent Sunday, for example, he tore out at religious hypocrisy, and though he disagrees with the Communists and pacifists, argued that churchgoing Christians have much to learn from both...
Such talk is not likely to elevate Beaumont in the church hierarchy, and he confidently expects that he will never be made a bishop. "I regard it," he says, "as so unlikely that it is not worth thinking about at all. Would you like to be a bishop? I think it would be absolute hell...