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...almost entirely on the avowed ground that the costs of pipelining gas and oil over the Rockies would be prohibitive. Along with this lack of direct competition, the Government also objects to the fact that Richfield's 13-man board of directors includes three Cities Service officers (Chairman Burl...
...Anton Drager (Rock Hudson) worships his own ego, and he has a cool contempt for anyone who does not do the same. He intends to pick the brains of a rumpled Rabelaisian master of tropical medicine named Brits Jansen (Burl Ives), and trade the findings for fame and fortune back home...
Slow Start. The boom in guitar playing started slowly about five years ago. Some credit the flood of new records, where listeners learned from Andrés Segovia what range the guitar was capable of. There was Burl Ives and then Elvis Presley to prove that anyone could play. And along came the records of such beguiling folk singers as Woody Guthrie, Richard Dyer-Bennet and Pete Seeger...
...chairman of billion-dollar-a-year Cities Service Co., Burl Stevens Watson, 67, drawls self-effacingly, "I'm just an average man. There's no romance in my story." But last week Alabama-bred Oilman Watson made stories all over the nation's business pages. At midweek Cities Service won an Interior Department contract to extract, process and sell to the U.S. up to $9.1 million a year worth of helium, production of which the Government previously monopolized. Next day Watson announced plans for a $108 million stock swap to acquire Columbian Carbon Co., an $80 million...
...father, Raymond Massey thunders wondrously, but he often seems faintly embarrassed by the part, and much of the time speaks with a flatness that would startle even Jason Robards, Jr. Julie Harris is her usual elfin self; and Burl Ives, the sheriff, is paternal and friendly...